868

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Centuries:	8th century - 9th century - 10th century
Decades:	830s  840s  850s  - 860s -  870s  880s  890s
Years:	865 866 867 - 868 - 869 870 871

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Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

868 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	868 DCCCLXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1621
Armenian calendar	317 ԹՎ ՅԺԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-976 – -975
Berber calendar	1818
Buddhist calendar	1412
Burmese calendar	230
Chinese calendar	3504/3564-12-3 (丁亥年十二月初三日) — to — 3505/3565-12-14 (戊子年十二月十四日)
Coptic calendar	584 – 585
Ethiopian calendar	860 – 861
Hebrew calendar	4628 – 4629
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	923 – 924
- Shaka Samvat	790 – 791
- Kali Yuga	3969 – 3970
Holocene calendar	10868
Iranian calendar	246 – 247
Islamic calendar	253 – 255
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3201
Thai solar calendar	1411
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[edit] Events

[edit] By Place

[edit] Asia

• 11 May — The Diamond Sutra, the oldest dated book, is printed.
• The Aghlabid dynasty of Tunisia takes Malta.

[edit] 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.

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[edit] Religion

• Ratramnus writes Contra Graecorum Opposita.

[edit] Births

• Muhammad al-Mahdi, Shia Imam

[edit] 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).