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886
This article is about the year 886. For other uses, see 886 (number).
| Centuries: | 8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
| Decades: | 850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s |
| Years: | 883 884 885 - 886 - 887 888 889 |
| 886 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 886 DCCCLXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1639 |
| Armenian calendar | 335 ԹՎ ՅԼԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -958 – -957 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1430 |
| Chinese calendar | 3522/3582-11-23 (乙巳年十一月廿三日) — to —
3523/3583-12-3(丙午年十二月初三日) |
| Coptic calendar | 602 – 603 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 878 – 879 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4646 – 4647 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 941 – 942 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 808 – 809 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3987 – 3988 |
| Holocene calendar | 10886 |
| Iranian calendar | 264 – 265 |
| Islamic calendar | 272 – 273 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 1546 (皇紀1546年) |
| Julian calendar | 931 |
| Korean calendar | 3219 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1429 |
Events
By Place
Europe
- The Glagolitic alphabet, devised by Cyril and Methodius, missionaries from Constantinople, is adopted in the Bulgarian Empire.
- Alfred the Great captures London and renames it Lundenburgh. The boundaries between Wessex and the Danelaw are shifted.
- Alfred the Great builds a small harbour called Queenhythe slightly upstream from London Bridge.
- Alfred the Great mints the first halfpenny. Previous halfpennies had been pennies cut in half.
- Earl Aethelred is given control of London by Alfred the Great. Alfred's sister Ethelfleda marries Aethelred.
- Khan Boris I of Bulgaria establishes the Preslav and Ohrid Literary Schools.
- Charles II of France purchases peace with Vikings and Rollo of Normandy then lifts his siege of Paris.
- Odo, Count of Paris becomes Count of Anjou on the death of Hugh the Abbot.
Byzantine Empire
Leo VI succeeds his stepfather Basil I as Byzantine emperor and replaces patriarch Photius with his brother Stephen I.
Births
Deaths
- August 29 — Basil I, Byzantine Emperor
- Adalbert, Duke of Tuscany
- Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, Persian astronomer
- Heongang, king of Silla (in modern Korea)
- Wulgrin I, Count of Angoulême
- Muhammad I of Córdoba, leader of the Umayyad dynastymap-bms:886bpy:মারি ৮৮৬new:८८६ksh:Joohr 886
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