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Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	830s 840s 850s – 860s – 870s 880s 890s
Years:	860 861 862 – 863 – 864 865 866

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Year 863 (DCCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Constantine I succeeds as king of Scotland (or 862).
After the death of Charles, Lothair takes part of the Jura and Louis II takes the Provence.
Carloman revolts against his father Louis the German a second time.
The first written record of Smolensk.

The Tang Dynasty Chinese author Duan Chengshi writes about Chinese maritime trade in East Africa, and the Arab-run slave trade there.
At the Battle of Lalakaon, the East Roman (Byzantine) Empire annihilates an Arab force led by Omar, emir of Melitene. In conjunction with another victory over the Arabs in Armenia, it marks the beginning of the Empire's resurgence, and its counteroffensive against the forces of Islam.

863 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
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