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Calendar overview 863
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| 863 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 311/312 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 855/856 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1406/07 (southern Buddhism); 1405/06 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 59th (60th) cycle
Year of the water sheep癸未 ( at the beginning of the year water horse 壬午) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 225/226 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 241/242 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 248/249 (February 23/24) |
| Jewish calendar | 4623/24 (September 17/18) |
| Coptic calendar | 579/580 |
| Malayalam calendar | 38/39 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MDCXVI (1616)
Diocletian's era : 579/580 (November turn of the year) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1173/74 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1174/75 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 901 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 919/920 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Europe
- Franconian Empire : After the death of Karl , his empire is divided between his two brothers Lothar II and Ludwig II .
- Viking Age : Danish Vikings plunder up the Rhine as far as Cologne in January . At Neuss they are raised and besieged by Franconian and Saxon troops. In April they withdraw again.
- Pope Nicholas I excommunicated Archbishop Gunthar of Cologne .
- The Goths under Margrave Hunfried succeed in driving the Franks out of Toulouse .
- Constantine I of the Alpin family succeeds his late uncle Donald I on the throne of Scotland .
Middle East
Africa
- Ziyadat Allah II becomes Emir of the Aghlabids in Ifrīqiya , later Abu l-Gharaniq Muhammad II.
First documentary mentions
- First mention of the Russian city of Smolensk
- Weiher is first mentioned in a document in the Lorsch Codex
religion
- July 5th : The Slav apostles Cyril and Methodius arrive in the Great Moravian Empire . In the same year Kyrill developed the Glagolitic script .
Born
- around 863: Baldwin II , Count of Flanders († 918 )
Died
- January 24th : Charles , King of Provence (* around 845 )
- June 4 : Charles of Aquitaine , Archbishop of Mainz (* 825 / 830 )
- October 4th : Turpion , Count of Angoulême
- Abu Ibrahim Ahmad , Emir of the Aghlabids
- Donald I , King of Scotland (* around 812 )
- Karbeas , Byzantine general, rebel and leader of the Paulicians
Web links
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