865

Year 865 (DCCCLXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
865 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar865
DCCCLXV
Ab urbe condita1618
Armenian calendar314
ԹՎ ՅԺԴ
Assyrian calendar5615
Balinese saka calendar786–787
Bengali calendar272
Berber calendar1815
Buddhist calendar1409
Burmese calendar227
Byzantine calendar6373–6374
Chinese calendar甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
3561 or 3501
     to 
乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
3562 or 3502
Coptic calendar581–582
Discordian calendar2031
Ethiopian calendar857–858
Hebrew calendar4625–4626
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat921–922
 - Shaka Samvat786–787
 - Kali Yuga3965–3966
Holocene calendar10865
Iranian calendar243–244
Islamic calendar250–251
Japanese calendarJōgan 7
(貞観7年)
Javanese calendar762–763
Julian calendar865
DCCCLXV
Korean calendar3198
Minguo calendar1047 before ROC
民前1047年
Nanakshahi calendar−603
Seleucid era1176/1177 AG
Thai solar calendar1407–1408
Tibetan calendar阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
991 or 610 or −162
     to 
阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
992 or 611 or −161
A map of the Viking invasion in East Anglia with the routes of the Great Heathen Army.

Events

Europe

Britain

  • The Great Heathen Army (probably no more than 1,000 men) of Vikings, led by Ivar the Boneless and Halfdan Ragnarsson, invades East Anglia. King Edmund of East Anglia buys peace with a supply of horses.
  • Viking king Ragnar Lodbrok is captured by the Northumbrians in battle, and killed by being thrown into a pit filled with poisonous snakes, on the orders of King Ælla of Northumbria.
  • Autumn King Æthelberht of Wessex dies after a 5-year reign, and is buried at Sherborne Abbey (Dorset). He is succeeded by his brother Æthelred I, as ruler of Wessex.

Abbasid Caliphate

  • Caliphal Civil War: An armed conflict starts between the rival Muslim caliphs al-Musta'in and al-Mu'tazz. They fight to determine who takes control over the Abbasid Caliphate (until 866).

Religion

  • Kassia, a Byzantine abbess and hymnographer, dies. She is one of the first Early Medieval composers of many hymns.

Births

Deaths

  • February 3 Ansgar, Frankish monk and archbishop (b. 801)
  • March 8 Rudolf of Fulda, German theologian
  • November 11 Petronas, Byzantine general
  • December 26 Zheng, empress of the Tang Dynasty
  • Æthelberht, king of Wessex
  • Antony the Younger, Byzantine governor and saint (b. 785)
  • Deshan Xuanjian, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk
  • Gao Qu, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
  • Kassia, Byzantine abbess and hymnographer
  • Khurshid, ruler (shah) of Daylam
  • Liu Gongquan, Chinese calligrapher (b. 778)
  • Lothair the Lame, Frankish abbot
  • Muhammad ibn al-Fadl al-Jarjara'i, Muslim vizier (or 864)
  • Pepin II, king of Aquitaine (approximate date)
  • Ragnar Lodbrok, king of Denmark and Sweden
  • Raymond I, count of Toulouse
  • Rorgon II, count of Maine (approximate date)
  • Tigernach mac Fócartai, king of Lagore (Ireland)
  • Wenilo, Frankish archbishop
  • Xiao Zhi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
  • Yahya ibn Umar, Muslim imam (or 864)

References

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