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862
Rune for Rurik
Varangians under Ryurik conquer Novgorod .
862 in other calendars
Armenian calendar 310/311 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar 854/855
Buddhist calendar 1405/06 (southern Buddhism); 1404/05 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 59th (60th) cycle

Year of the water horse壬午 ( at the beginning of the year metal snake 辛巳)

Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) 224/225 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar 240/241 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar 247/248 (March 6-7)
Jewish calendar 4622/23 (August 28/29)
Coptic calendar 578/579
Malayalam calendar 37/38
Roman calendar from urbe condita MDCXV (1615)

Diocletian's era : 578/579 (New Year November)

Seleucid era Babylon: 1172/73 (turn of the year April)

Syria: 1173/74 (turn of the year October)

Spanish era 900
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) 918/919 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Europe

Image of Rurik on the monument "1000 Years of Russia" in Novgorod, erected in 1862
  • Viking Age : Varangians under Ryurik conquer Novgorod .
  • According to the Nestor Chronicle , there are fights between locals and Varangians, which lead to the displacement of the Varangians. Afterwards, a delegation of Slavs, Finns and Estonians travels to Sweden and invites the Warsaw Rus to rule over the divided tribes.

Abbasid Empire

  • June 25 : After only six months, al-Muntasir , Caliph of the Abbasids , like his father before, is overthrown and murdered by a conspiracy by Turkish officers. Al-Musta'in bi-llah is installed as successor . The power struggles at the Caliph's court of Samarra continue unabated.

City foundations and first documentary mentions

religion

Died

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