865

This article is about the year 865.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	830s  840s  850s  – 860s –  870s  880s  890s
Years:	862 863 864 – 865 – 866 867 868

865 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

865 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	865 DCCCLXV
Ab urbe condita	1618
Armenian calendar	314 ԹՎ ՅԺԴ
Assyrian calendar	5615
Bahá'í calendar	-979–-978
Bengali calendar	272
Berber calendar	1815
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1409
Burmese calendar	227
Byzantine calendar	6373–6374
Chinese calendar	甲申年十一月三十日 (3501/3561-11-30) — to — 乙酉年十二月初十日 (3502/3562-12-10)
Coptic calendar	581–582
Ethiopian calendar	857–858
Hebrew calendar	4625–4626
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	921–922
- Shaka Samvat	787–788
- Kali Yuga	3966–3967
Holocene calendar	10865
Iranian calendar	243–244
Islamic calendar	250–251
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3198
Minguo calendar	1047 before ROC 民前1047年
Thai solar calendar	1408

Year 865 (DCCCLXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Ethelred succeeds as king of Wessex (or 866).
• Louis the German divides his kingdom among his sons.
• Lothair, threatened with excommunication, takes back his first wife, Theutberga.
• Bulgaria under Boris I converts to Orthodox Christianity.

Asia

• A Russian expedition for the first time threatens Constantinople.

Births

• Hersent, Duchess of Lorraine, France
• Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi, physician, philosopher, and scholar who discovererd alcohol

Deaths

• February 3 – Saint Ansgar, Frankish missionary, "the Apostle of the North" (b. 801)
• Ragnar Lodbrok, King of Denmark and Sweden
• Liu Gongquan