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This article is about the year 859.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 820s 830s 840s – 850s – 860s 870s 880s |
| Years: | 856 857 858 – 859 – 860 861 862 |
| 859 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 859 DCCCLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1612 |
| Armenian calendar | 308 ԹՎ ՅԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5609 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -985–-984 |
| Bengali calendar | 266 |
| Berber calendar | 1809 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1403 |
| Burmese calendar | 221 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6367–6368 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊寅年十一月廿四日 (3495/3555-11-24) — to —
己卯年十二月初四日(3496/3556-12-4) |
| Coptic calendar | 575–576 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 851–852 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4619–4620 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 915–916 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 781–782 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3960–3961 |
| Holocene calendar | 10859 |
| Iranian calendar | 237–238 |
| Islamic calendar | 244–245 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3192 |
| Minguo calendar | 1053 before ROC 民前1053年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1402 |
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Year 859 (DCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- January 15 – Battle of Saint-Quentin, Aisne: Humfrid defeats Louis the German.
- Iberian peninsula: Battle of Abelda: the Asturians defeat the Muslims.[citation needed]. The same year, Viking raiders attack the region and burn the mosques of Sevilla and Algesiras, they also sack the western coasts of Spain (known as al-Sharq al-Andalus) and the Balearic Islands.[1]
- The Russian city of Novgorod is first mentioned in the chronicles.
Africa
- The University of Al Karaouine is founded in Fes, Morocco (recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest university in the world).
Births
Deaths
References
- ^ Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique. Paris: Seuil. p. 85. ISBN 2-02-012935-3.
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