860s
Encyclopedia : 8 : 86 : 860 : 860s
Centuries: 8th century - 9th century - 10th century
Decades: 810s - 820s - 830s - 840s - 850s - 860s - 870s - 880s - 890s - 900s - 910s
Years: 860 861 862 863 864 865 866 867 868 869
Events
- Rurik establishes the state of Novgorod (later Kievan Rus')
- Basil I has first caesar Bardas (866), then emperor Michael III (867) murdered and thus rises to the power himself. One of his first acts is to depose and banish patriarch Photius I and reinstate patriarch Ignatius, who had been arrested and illegally deposed earlier.
Important people
- Rurik
- Pope Nicholas I
- Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Ragnar Lodbrok
- Basil I
- Charles the Bald
- Louis the German
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