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Calendar overview 861
Map with all linked pages: | 861 | |
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| 861 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 309/310 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 853/854 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1404/05 (southern Buddhism); 1403/04 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 59th (60th) cycle
Year of the Metal Snake辛巳 ( at the beginning of the year Metal Dragon 庚辰) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 223/224 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 239/240 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 246/247 (March 16-17) |
| Jewish calendar | 4621/22 (September 8/9) |
| Coptic calendar | 577/578 |
| Malayalam calendar | 36/37 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MDCXIV (1614)
Diocletian's era : 577/578 (November turn of the year) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1171/72 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1172/73 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 899 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 917/918 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Viking age
The Vikings are plundering the city of Paris for the third time and wintering nearby.
Another Viking fleet invades the Mediterranean again, robbing and plundering .
Balkans
The Byzantine Emperor Michael III. attacks the Bulgarian Empire .
Abbasid Empire
- December 8 : Al-Mutawakkil , Caliph of the Abbasids , is overthrown and murdered in a conspiracy between his son al-Muntasir and Turkish officers. The new caliph, however, is itself just a plaything for various interest groups. Power struggles of several years begin at the Kaliph's court in Samarra .
City foundations and first documentary mentions
- According to legend, Braunschweig was founded by the two brothers Brun (o) and Dankward from the Liudolfinger family.
- First documentary mention of Bäriswil , Blonay , Bad Ditzenbach , Dielsdorf , Eislingen , Fridingen an der Donau , Gruibingen , Langenthal , Merklingen , Niederhausen , Rötenbach and Wanlo
science and technology
- May 19 : A meteorite strikes a temple in Nogata on the Japanese island of Kyushu . The fall of the chondrite is observed and the piece is kept in a shrine for posterity. It is the first dated meteorite impact .
religion
- Founding of the Wiesensteig Monastery
Born
- 859 or 861: Abū Bakr al-Shiblī , Arab Sufi, emir, legal scholar and chamberlain, companion of the Sufis Mansur al-Halladsch and Junaid Baghdadi († 946 )
Died
Date of death secured
- January 21 : Meinrad von Einsiedeln , East Franconian monk (* around 797 )
- April 13th : Answin von Camerino , bishop in central Italy
- December 8 : Jafar al-Mutawakkil , Abbasid caliph (* 822 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Prudentius of Troyes , Bishop of Troyes
Web links
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