859

This article is about the year 859.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	820s  830s  840s  – 850s –  860s  870s  880s
Years:	856 857 858 – 859 – 860 861 862

859 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

859 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	859 DCCCLIX
Ab urbe condita	1612
Armenian calendar	308 ԹՎ ՅԸ
Assyrian calendar	5609
Bahá'í calendar	-985–-984
Bengali calendar	266
Berber calendar	1809
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1403
Burmese calendar	221
Byzantine calendar	6367–6368
Chinese calendar	戊寅年十一月廿四日 (3495/3555-11-24) — to — 己卯年十二月初四日 (3496/3556-12-4)
Coptic calendar	575–576
Ethiopian calendar	851–852
Hebrew calendar	4619–4620
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	915–916
- Shaka Samvat	781–782
- Kali Yuga	3960–3961
Holocene calendar	10859
Iranian calendar	237–238
Islamic calendar	244–245
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3192
Minguo calendar	1053 before ROC 民前1053年
Thai solar calendar	1402

Year 859 (DCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• January 15 – Battle of Saint-Quentin, Aisne: Humfrid defeats Louis the German.
• Iberian peninsula: Battle of Abelda: the Asturians defeat the Muslims.^{[citation needed]}. The same year, Viking raiders attack the region and burn the mosques of Sevilla and Algesiras, they also sack the western coasts of Spain (known as al-Sharq al-Andalus) and the Balearic Islands.
• The Russian city of Novgorod is first mentioned in the chronicles.

Africa

• The University of Al Karaouine is founded in Fes, Morocco (recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest university in the world).

Deaths

• Emperor Xuānzong of Tang