859
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This article is about the year 859. For the number, see 859 (number).
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
Decades: | 820s 830s 840s – 850s – 860s 870s 880s |
Years: | 856 857 858 – 859 – 860 861 862 |
859 by topic | |
Politics | |
State leaders – Sovereign states | |
Birth and death categories | |
Births – Deaths | |
Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
Establishments – Disestablishments | |
Gregorian calendar | 859 DCCCLIX |
Ab urbe condita | 1612 |
Armenian calendar | 308 ԹՎ ՅԸ |
Assyrian calendar | 5609 |
Bahá'í calendar | −985 – −984 |
Bengali calendar | 266 |
Berber calendar | 1809 |
English Regnal year | N/A |
Buddhist calendar | 1403 |
Burmese calendar | 221 |
Byzantine calendar | 6367–6368 |
Chinese calendar | 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3555 or 3495 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3556 or 3496 |
Coptic calendar | 575–576 |
Discordian calendar | 2025 |
Ethiopian calendar | 851–852 |
Hebrew calendar | 4619–4620 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 915–916 |
- Shaka Samvat | 781–782 |
- Kali Yuga | 3960–3961 |
Holocene calendar | 10859 |
Igbo calendar | −141 – −140 |
Iranian calendar | 237–238 |
Islamic calendar | 244–245 |
Japanese calendar | Ten'an 3 / Jōgan 1 (貞観元年) |
Juche calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | 859 DCCCLIX |
Korean calendar | 3192 |
Minguo calendar | 1053 before ROC 民前1053年 |
Thai solar calendar | 1402 |
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Year 859 (DCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- January 15 – Battle of Saint-Quentin, Aisne: Humfrid defeats Louis the German.
- Iberian peninsula: Battle of Abelda: the Asturians defeat the Muslims. [citation needed]. The same year, Viking raiders attack the region and burn the mosques of Sevilla and Algesiras, they also sack the western coasts of Spain (known as al-Sharq al-Andalus) and the Balearic Islands.[1]
- The Russian city of Novgorod is first mentioned in the chronicles.
Africa
- The University of Al Karaouine is founded in Fes, Morocco (recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest university in the world).
Births
- date unknown – King Rudolph I of Burgundy (died 912)
Deaths
- March 11 – Saint Eulogius of Córdoba, Christian martyr (executed)
- September 7 – Emperor Xuānzong of Tang
- December 13 – Angilbert II, Archbishop of Milan
References
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