| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 830s 840s 850s – 860s – 870s 880s 890s |
| Years: | 860 861 862 863 864 865 866 867 868 869 |
| Categories: | Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments |
The 860s decade ran from January 1, 860, to December 31, 869.
Events and trends
- 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.
- Unrest in the Abbasid Caliphate led to the reorganization of the Ghulam Turkic soldier-class as the more modern Mamluk system
Significant people
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