856
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This article is about the year 856. For the number, see 856 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 820s 830s 840s – 850s – 860s 870s 880s |
| Years: | 853 854 855 – 856 – 857 858 859 |
| 856 by topic | |
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| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
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| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 856 DCCCLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1609 |
| Armenian calendar | 305 ԹՎ ՅԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5606 |
| Bahá'í calendar | −988 – −987 |
| Bengali calendar | 263 |
| Berber calendar | 1806 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1400 |
| Burmese calendar | 218 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6364–6365 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3552 or 3492 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3553 or 3493 |
| Coptic calendar | 572–573 |
| Discordian calendar | 2022 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 848–849 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4616–4617 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 912–913 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 778–779 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3957–3958 |
| Holocene calendar | 10856 |
| Igbo calendar | −144 – −143 |
| Iranian calendar | 234–235 |
| Islamic calendar | 241–242 |
| Japanese calendar | Saikō 3 (斉衡３年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 856 DCCCLVI |
| Korean calendar | 3189 |
| Minguo calendar | 1056 before ROC 民前1056年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1399 |
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Year 856 (DCCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Joolian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- December 22 – Another deadly earthquake strikes Damghan, Iran, killing 200,000 people.
Europe
- Ethelbald usurps the throne of Wessex from his father Ethelwulf.
- Ordoño I of Asturias is said to have begun the repopulation of the town of León.
Byzantine Empire
- Bardas becomes regent for the Byzantine Emperor Michael III.
- November – An earthquake in Corinth, Greece, kills an estimated 45,000.
- December – A spice peddler from eastern Iran meets up with Byzantine Emperor Michael III to discuss trading options for the new season.
Births
- Li Keyong, ethnic Shatuo Turk who became a prominent jiedushi of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (d. 908)
- Li Maozhen
Deaths
- January 7 – Saint Aldric, Bishop of Le Mans (b. c. 800; died at Le Mans)
- February 4 – Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mainz
References
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