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A 32-bit RISC-based microprocessor from Intel that included a 64-bit floating point unit (FPU) and 64-bit buses. Introduced in 1988, it had limited use in Unix workstations for 3D graphics applications and also in Intel's iPSC/860 supercomputer. Both the i860 and i960 were replaced with the StrongARM chips acquired from Digital Equipment. See i960.

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This article is about the year 860.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	830s  840s  850s  – 860s –  870s  880s  890s
Years:	857 858 859 – 860 – 861 862 863

860 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

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Births – Deaths

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860 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	860 DCCCLX
Ab urbe condita	1613
Armenian calendar	309 ԹՎ ՅԹ
Assyrian calendar	5610
Bahá'í calendar	-984–-983
Bengali calendar	267
Berber calendar	1810
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1404
Burmese calendar	222
Byzantine calendar	6368–6369
Chinese calendar	己卯年十二月初五日 (3496/3556-12-5) — to — 庚辰年十一月十六日 (3497/3557-11-16)
Coptic calendar	576–577
Ethiopian calendar	852–853
Hebrew calendar	4620–4621
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	916–917
- Shaka Samvat	782–783
- Kali Yuga	3961–3962
Holocene calendar	10860
Iranian calendar	238–239
Islamic calendar	245–246
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3193
Minguo calendar	1052 before ROC 民前1052年
Thai solar calendar	1403
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Year 860 (DCCCLX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• First siege of Constantinople by the Rus.

Europe

• Ethelbert succeeds as king of Wessex.
• The later Harald I of Norway becomes king.

By topic

Art

• Lusterware tiles, decorated the mihrab of the Mosque of Uqba at Kairouan, are made (approximate date).

Religion

• Michael I succeeds Sophronius I as Patriarch of Alexandria.
• Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius arrive in Khazaria.

Births

• Rollo of Normandy, founder and first ruler of the Viking principality of Normandy (also known as Hrolf Ganger in Icelandic/Norwegian sagas).
• Ibn Abd Rabbih, Arabic poet. (d. 940)

Deaths

• Ethelbald of Wessex
• Halfdan the Black, king of parts of Norway (b. 820)

References

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