863
Appearance
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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863 by topic |
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Leaders |
Categories |
Gregorian calendar | 863 DCCCLXIII |
Ab urbe condita | 1616 |
Armenian calendar | 312 ԹՎ ՅԺԲ |
Assyrian calendar | 5613 |
Balinese saka calendar | 784–785 |
Bengali calendar | 270 |
Berber calendar | 1813 |
Buddhist calendar | 1407 |
Burmese calendar | 225 |
Byzantine calendar | 6371–6372 |
Chinese calendar | 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3560 or 3353 — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3561 or 3354 |
Coptic calendar | 579–580 |
Discordian calendar | 2029 |
Ethiopian calendar | 855–856 |
Hebrew calendar | 4623–4624 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 919–920 |
- Shaka Samvat | 784–785 |
- Kali Yuga | 3963–3964 |
Holocene calendar | 10863 |
Iranian calendar | 241–242 |
Islamic calendar | 248–249 |
Japanese calendar | Jōgan 5 (貞観5年) |
Javanese calendar | 760–761 |
Julian calendar | 863 DCCCLXIII |
Korean calendar | 3196 |
Minguo calendar | 1049 before ROC 民前1049年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −605 |
Seleucid era | 1174/1175 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1405–1406 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 989 or 608 or −164 — to — 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 990 or 609 or −163 |
Year 863 (DCCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Constantine I succeeds as king of Scotland (or 862).
- After the death of their brother Charles, Lothair II 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 Christianization of the Rus' Khaganate begins ceasing the dominance of the 63-year-long Rus' Khaganate.
Asia
- September 3 – 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 in the Arab–Byzantine wars.
- The Tang dynasty Chinese author Duan Chengshi writes about Chinese maritime trade in East Africa, and the Arab-run slave trade there.
By topic
Religion
- Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius come to Great Moravia upon a request of Prince Rastislav.
- Pope Nicholas I excommunicates Patriarch Photios I of Constantinople.
Births
Deaths
- Ali ibn Yahya al-Armani, Abbasid governor of Armenia and Azerbaijan
- Duan Chengshi
- Karbeas, leader of the Paulicians
- Umar al-Aqta, emir of Melitene