855

Calendar year

This article is about the year 855. For the area code, see Toll-free telephone number.

Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century 9th century 10th century
Decades:	830s 840s 850s 860s 870s
Years:	852 853 854 855 856 857 858
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855 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 855
DCCCLV

Ab urbe condita 1608

Armenian calendar 304
ԹՎ ՅԴ

Assyrian calendar 5605

Balinese saka calendar 776–777

Bengali calendar 261–262

Berber calendar 1805

Buddhist calendar 1399

Burmese calendar 217

Byzantine calendar 6363–6364

Chinese calendar 甲戌年 (Wood Dog)
3552 or 3345
— to —
乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
3553 or 3346

Coptic calendar 571–572

Discordian calendar 2021

Ethiopian calendar 847–848

Hebrew calendar 4615–4616

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 911–912

- Shaka Samvat 776–777

- Kali Yuga 3955–3956

Holocene calendar 10855

Iranian calendar 233–234

Islamic calendar 240–241

Japanese calendar Saikō 2
(斉衡2年)

Javanese calendar 752–753

Julian calendar 855
DCCCLV

Korean calendar 3188

Minguo calendar 1057 before ROC
民前1057年

Nanakshahi calendar −613

Seleucid era 1166/1167 AG

Thai solar calendar 1397–1398

Tibetan calendar 阳木狗年
(male Wood-Dog)
981 or 600 or −172
— to —
阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
982 or 601 or −171

Emperor Lothair I divides Middle Francia between his three sons (Treaty of Prüm).

Year 855 (DCCCLV ) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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By place

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Byzantine Empire

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November 20 – Theoktistos, co-regent of the Empire on behalf of 15-year old Emperor Michael III, is murdered on the orders of Michael.

Central Europe

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September 29 – Emperor Lothair I dies after a 15-year reign (co-ruling with his father Louis the Pious until 840). He divides the Middle Frankish Kingdom between his three sons in an agreement called the Treaty of Prüm—the eldest, Louis II, receives the northern half of Italy and the title of Holy Roman Emperor. The second, Lothair II, receives Lotharingia (the Low Countries and Upper Burgundy). The youngest, Charles, receives Lower Burgundy and Provence.

Britain

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Spring – King Æthelwulf of Wessex decides to go on a pilgrimage to Rome, accompanied by his youngest son Alfred (age 6) and a large retinue.^[1] He divides the kingdom between his two eldest sons; Æthelbald receives the western part of Wessex, while Æthelberht becomes ruler over Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Essex.^[2]

Abbasid Caliphate

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Caliph al-Mutawakkil sends an Abbasid army, led by the Turkic general Bugha al-Kabir, to suppress an uprising of rebellious Armenian nakharars . He subdues the country, and deports many Armenian nobles to the caliphal capital of Samarra.^[3]

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Religion

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July 17 – Pope Leo IV dies after an 8-year reign, and is succeeded by Benedict III as the 104th pope of Rome. Anastasius is made anti-pope by Lothair I.
Æthelwulf grants churches in Wessex the right to receive tithes. He gives one-tenth of his lands to the Church.^[4]
The Slavic alphabet is created by Saints Cyril and Methodius.

Births

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Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat, Muslim vizier (d. 924)
Gerald of Aurillac, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
Guaimar I of Salerno, Lombard prince (approximate date)
Han Jian, Chinese warlord (d. 912)
Jing Hao, Chinese painter (d. 915)

Deaths

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July 17 – Leo IV, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 790)
September 20 – Gozbald, abbot and bishop of Würzburg
September 29 – Lothair I, Frankish king and emperor (b. 795)
November 20 – Theoktistos, Byzantine chief minister
December 8 – Drogo of Metz, illegitimate son of Charlemagne (b. 801)
Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim scholar and theologian (b. 780)
Boso the Elder, count of Turin and Valois
Cyngen ap Cadell, king of Powys (Wales)
Elisedd ap Cyngen, king of Powys (Wales)
Pepin, count of Vermandois (approximate date)
Sahnun ibn Sa'id, Muslim jurist (or 854)
Sico II, prince of Salerno (Italy)

References

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^ Abels 1998, p. 72.
^ Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, p. 17. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5
^ Ter-Ghewondyan 1976, pp. 83–86.
^ Stevenson 1904, p. 186.

Sources

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Abels, Richard (1998). Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Harlow, UK: Longman. ISBN 0-582-04047-7.
Stevenson, William Henry (1904). Asser's Life of King Alfred. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. OCLC 1354216.
Ter-Ghewondyan, Aram (1976) [1965]. The Arab Emirates in Bagratid Armenia. Translated by Garsoïan, Nina. Lisbon: Livraria Bertrand. OCLC 490638192.

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