886
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This article is about the year 886. For other uses, see 886 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
| Decades: | 850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s |
| Years: | 883 884 885 - 886 - 887 888 889 |
| 886 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 886 DCCCLXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1639 |
| Armenian calendar | 335 ԹՎ ՅԼԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -958 – -957 |
| Berber calendar | 1836 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1430 |
| Burmese calendar | 248 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6394 – 6395 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年十一月廿三日 (3522/3582-11-23) — to —
丙午年十二月初三日(3523/3583-12-3) |
| Coptic calendar | 602 – 603 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 878 – 879 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4646 – 4647 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 941 – 942 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 808 – 809 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3987 – 3988 |
| Holocene calendar | 10886 |
| Iranian calendar | 264 – 265 |
| Islamic calendar | 272 – 273 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3219 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1429 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By Place
[edit] Europe
- The Glagolitic alphabet, devised by Cyril and Methodius, missionaries from Constantinople, is adopted in the Bulgarian Empire.
- Alfred the Great captures London and renames it Lundenburgh. Slightly upstream from London Bridge he builds a small harbour called Queenhythe. Control of London is given to Earl Aethelred who marries Alfred's sister Ethelfleda.
- Alfred the Great mints the first halfpenny. Previous halfpennies had been pennies cut in half.
- Khan Boris I of Bulgaria establishes the Preslav and Ohrid Literary Schools.
- Charles II of France purchases peace with Vikings and Rollo of Normandy, then lifts his siege of Paris.
- Odo, Count of Paris becomes Count of Anjou on the death of Hugh the Abbot.
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- Leo VI succeeds his stepfather Basil I as Byzantine emperor and replaces patriarch Photius with his brother Stephen I.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- August 29 — Basil I, Byzantine Emperor
- Adalbert, Duke of Tuscany
- Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, Persian astronomer
- Heongang, king of Silla (in modern Korea)
- Wulgrin I, Count of Angoulême
- Muhammad I of Córdoba, leader of the Umayyad dynasty
