856

This article is about the year 856.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	820s  830s  840s  – 850s –  860s  870s  880s
Years:	853 854 855 – 856 – 857 858 859

856 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

856 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	856 DCCCLVI
Ab urbe condita	1609
Armenian calendar	305 ԹՎ ՅԵ
Assyrian calendar	5606
Bahá'í calendar	-988–-987
Bengali calendar	263
Berber calendar	1806
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1400
Burmese calendar	218
Byzantine calendar	6364–6365
Chinese calendar	乙亥年十一月二十日 (3492/3552-11-20) — to — 丙子年十二月初一日 (3493/3553-12-1)
Coptic calendar	572–573
Ethiopian calendar	848–849
Hebrew calendar	4616–4617
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	912–913
- Shaka Samvat	778–779
- Kali Yuga	3957–3958
Holocene calendar	10856
Iranian calendar	234–235
Islamic calendar	241–242
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3189
Minguo calendar	1056 before ROC 民前1056年
Thai solar calendar	1399

Year 856 (DCCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• December 22 – Another deadly earthquake strikes Damghan, Iran, killing 200,000 people.

Europe

• Ethelbald usurps the throne of Wessex from his father Ethelwulf.
• Ordoño I of Asturias is said to have begun the repopulation of the town of León.

Byzantine Empire

• Bardas becomes regent for the Byzantine Emperor Michael III.
• November – An earthquake in Corinth, Greece, kills an estimated 45,000.

Births

• Li Keyong, ethnic Shatuo Turk who became a prominent jiedushi of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (d. 908)
• Li Maozhen

Deaths

• January 7 – Saint Aldric, Bishop of Le Mans (b. c. 800; died at Le Mans)
• February 4 – Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mainz