868

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Year 868 (DCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• Ahmad ibn Tulun, a Turkish mameluk general in Arab army founds Tulunid dynasty in Egypt.
• The Aghlabid dynasty of Tunisia takes Malta.

Asia

• May 11 – The Diamond Sutra, the oldest dated book, is printed.

Europe

• In Metz, Charles the Bald and Louis the German decide on a division of the lands of former emperor Lothar (now in possession of Lothar II and Louis II).
• In England, Alfred the Great marries Ealhswith and goes to the aid of Burgred of Mercia, who is attacked by Danes.
• The First County of Portugal is established by Vímara Peres, after the reconquest from the Moors of the region north of the Douro River.
• Aed Finliath drives the invading Danes and Norwegians out of Ireland, after defeating them at the Battle of Killineery.
• Al-Andalus: The city of Mérida rises against the Umayyad rule. The emir Muhammad regains control, have the walls of the city destroyed and supports the rival creation of the city of Badajoz as a retaliation.^[1]

By topic

Religion

• Ratramnus writes Contra Graecorum Opposita.

Births

• Muhammad al-Mahdi, Shia Imam
• Choe Eon-wui, Korean civil minister and calligrapher
• Théodrate of Troyes, wife of Odo, Count of Paris

Deaths

• July 1 – Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (b. 828)
• Al-Jahiz, an Arabic prose writer, historian, and author of works of adab, Mu'tazili theology, and politico-religious polemics (b. 776)

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