868

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	830s 840s 850s – 860s – 870s 880s 890s
Years:	865 866 867 – 868 – 869 870 871

868 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

Events

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

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.

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).