856

Millennium:	1st millennium
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
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

856 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	856 DCCCLVI
Ab urbe condita	1609
Armenian calendar	305 ԹՎ ՅԵ
Assyrian calendar	5606
Bengali calendar	263
Berber calendar	1806
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
Iranian calendar	234–235
Islamic calendar	241–242
Japanese calendar	Saikō 3 (斉衡３年)
Julian calendar	856 DCCCLVI
Korean calendar	3189
Minguo calendar	1056 before ROC 民前1056年
Seleucid era	1167/1168 AG
Thai solar calendar	1398–1399

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Year 856 (DCCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

December 22 – Another deadly earthquake strikes Damghan, Iran, killing 200,000 people.

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.

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.

Li Keyong, ethnic Shatuo Turk who became a prominent jiedushi of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (d. 908)
Li Maozhen