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

8th century

9th century

840s

860s

865

868

868 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar

868
DCCCLXVIII

Ab urbe condita

1621

Armenian calendar

317
ԹՎ ՅԺԷ

Assyrian calendar

5618

Balinese saka calendar

789–790

Bengali calendar

275

Berber calendar

1818

Buddhist calendar

1412

Burmese calendar

230

Byzantine calendar

6376–6377

Chinese calendar

丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
3565 or 3358
— to —
戊子年 (Earth Rat)
3566 or 3359

Coptic calendar

584–585

Discordian calendar

2034

Ethiopian calendar

860–861

Hebrew calendar

4628–4629

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat

924–925

- Shaka Samvat

789–790

3968–3969

Holocene calendar

10868

Iranian calendar

246–247

Islamic calendar

253–255

Japanese calendar

Jōgan10
(貞観10年)

Javanese calendar

765–766

Julian calendar

868
DCCCLXVIII

Korean calendar

3201

Minguo calendar

1044 before ROC
民前1044年

Nanakshahi calendar

−600

1179/1180 AG

Thai solar calendar

1410–1411

Tibetan calendar

阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
994 or 613 or −159
— to —
阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
995 or 614 or −158

First printed copy of the Diamond Sūtra

Events

By place

Europe

King Charles the Bald meets his brother Louis the GermanatMetz. They agree to a partition of Lotharingia, which belonged to former emperor Lothair I (now in possession of his sons Lothair II and Louis II).
Salomon, duke ('king') of Brittany, leads a joint campaign against the Loire Vikings. He is forced to defend southeastern Brittany unaided, and mobilizes levies raised at Poitiers to defeat the Vikings.
Al-Andalus: The city of Mérida rises against the Umayyad rule. Emir Muhammad I regains control, and has the walls of the city destroyed. He supports the rival creation of Badajoz in retaliation.^[1]
The County of Portugal is established around the town of Portus Cale (present-day Porto) by Vímara Peres, an Asturian nobleman, after the reconquest from the Moors of the region north of the Douro River.
Ratramnus, a Frankish monk and abbotofCorbie Abbey, writes Contra Graecorum Opposita.

Britain

Alfred the Great marries Ealhswith (a daughter of Æthelred, known as Mucel, an ealdorman of the Gaini). He supports his brother Æthelred I, in his choice to form an alliance with Mercia.
King Burgred of Mercia appeals to Æthelred I for help in resisting the Great Heathen Army. The Danes occupy Nottingham, and stay through the winter without any serious opposition.^[2]
King Áed Findliath drives the invading Danes and Norwegians out of Ireland, after defeating them at the Battle of Killineery.

Africa

September 15 – Ahmad ibn Tulun, a Turkish general, is sent to Egypt as governor, by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mu'tazz. He becomes the founder of the Tulunid Dynasty (until 905).
Muslim Arab forces under Muhammad II, emir of the Aghlabid Dynasty (modern Tunisia), conquer the island of Malta and raid into the mainland of Italy.

Asia

May 11 – The earliest extant printed book, an illustrated scroll of the Diamond Sutra ("Perfection of Wisdom"), unearthed at Dunhuang (Western China), is produced.^[3]

Births

Choe Eon-wui, Korean minister and calligrapher (d. 944)
Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Zahiri, Muslim theologian (d. 909)
Théodrate of Troyes, Frankish queen (d. 903)
Xu Jie, Chinese officer and chancellor (d. 943)

Deaths

Ali al-Hadi, tenth Shia Imam
Al-Jahiz, Afro-Muslim scholar and writer (b. 776)
Bugha al-Sharabi, Turkish military leader
Conwoïon, Breton abbot (approximate date)
Minamoto no Makoto, Japanese prince (b. 810)
Muzahim ibn Khaqan, Muslim governor
Stephania, wife of Adrian II
Theotgaud, archbishop of Trier
Yang Shou, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
Yu Xuanji, Chinese poet (or869)

References

^ Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique. Paris: Seuil. p. 86. ISBN 2-02-012935-3.

^ Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, p. 31. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5.

^ Victor H. Mair 2016 (lecture). "Dunhuang as Nexus of the Silk Road during the Middle Ages"onYouTube (58:30~58:40) Getty Research Institute. Accessed September 15, 2016.

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