861
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century · 9th century · 10th century |
| Decades: | 830s · 840s · 850s · 860s · 870s · 880s · 890s |
| Years: | 858 · 859 · 860 · 861 · 862 · 863 · 864 |
| 861 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 861 DCCCLXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1614 |
| Armenian calendar | 310 ԹՎ ՅԺ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5611 |
| Bengali calendar | 268 |
| Berber calendar | 1811 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1405 |
| Burmese calendar | 223 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6369–6370 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3557 or 3497 — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3558 or 3498 |
| Coptic calendar | 577–578 |
| Discordian calendar | 2027 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 853–854 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4621–4622 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 917–918 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 782–783 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3961–3962 |
| Holocene calendar | 10861 |
| Iranian calendar | 239–240 |
| Islamic calendar | 246–247 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōgan 3 (貞観３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 758–759 |
| Julian calendar | 861 DCCCLXI |
| Korean calendar | 3194 |
| Minguo calendar | 1051 before ROC 民前1051年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −607 |
| Seleucid era | 1172/1173 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1403–1404 |
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Year 861 (DCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- March – Robert the Strong is appointed margrave of Neustria by king Charles the Bald. He re-establishes the Breton March and extends his remit by campaigning against Salomon, duke 'king' of Brittany. Robert hires a combined a Seine-Loire fleet for 6,000 pounds of silver, 'before Salomon can ally with them against him'. In return, Salomon enlists 12 Viking ships under the command of Hastein to raid the county of Maine which, with Anjou, becomes squeezed between Brittany and Neustria.
- Carloman, eldest son of king Louis the German, revolts against his father. He is captured but manages to escape to the Ostmark (or 862).
- Summer – Viking raiders sack the cities of Paris, Cologne, Aachen, Worms and Toulouse.
Abbasid Caliphate
- December 11 – Caliph al-Mutawakkil is murdered by his Turkish guard, starting the period of troubles known as the "Anarchy at Samarra" (861–870). He is succeeded by his son Al-Muntasir as ruler of the Abbasid Caliphate.
- Ya'qub ibn al-Layth, a Muslim military leader, founds the Saffarid Dynasty. He rules over parts of Khurasan and eastern Iran and establishes his capital at Zaranj (modern Afghanistan).
By topic
Hydrology
- Al-Mutawakkil orders the construction of a Nilometer on Rhoda Island in central Cairo, supervised by the Persian astronomer Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani.
Births
- Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Muslim poet (d. 908)
- Abu Bakr Shibli, Muslim sufi (d. 946)
- Al-Mu'tadid, Muslim caliph (or 854)
- Heongang, king of Silla (approximate date)
Deaths
- April 6 – Prudentius, bishop of Troyes
- December 11 –
- al-Mutawakkil, Abbasid caliph (b. 822)
- al-Fath ibn Khaqan, chief confidante and councillor of al-Mutawakkil
- Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, Persian astronomer
- Álvaro of Córdoba, Mozarab scholar and theologian
- Ansovinus, bishop of Camerino (approximate date)
- Bai Minzhong, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 792)
- Gladilanus, Galician clergyman (approximate date)
- Gregory of Khandzta, Georgian archimandrite (b. 759)
- Heonan, king of Silla (Korea)
- Lando I, count of Capua
- Meinrad of Einsiedeln, German hermit and martyr
- Pribina, Slavic prince (approximate date)
- Samuel of Kakheti, Georgian prince
References
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