862
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 830s 840s 850s – 860s – 870s 880s 890s |
| Years: | 859 860 861 – 862 – 863 864 865 |
| 862 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 862 DCCCLXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1615 |
| Armenian calendar | 311 ԹՎ ՅԺԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5612 |
| Bengali calendar | 269 |
| Berber calendar | 1812 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1406 |
| Burmese calendar | 224 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6370–6371 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3558 or 3498 — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3559 or 3499 |
| Coptic calendar | 578–579 |
| Discordian calendar | 2028 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 854–855 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4622–4623 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 918–919 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 784–785 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3963–3964 |
| Holocene calendar | 10862 |
| Iranian calendar | 240–241 |
| Islamic calendar | 247–248 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōgan 4 (貞観４年) |
| Julian calendar | 862 DCCCLXII |
| Korean calendar | 3195 |
| Minguo calendar | 1050 before ROC 民前1050年 |
| Seleucid era | 1173/1174 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1404–1405 |
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Year 862 (DCCCLXII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- Fan Chuo finishes his Manchu (Book of the Southern Tribes).
Europe
- Ashot I becomes the first king of Armenia's Bagratuni Dynasty.
- Aed Finliath is crowned High King of Ireland.
- First written record of Murom, Russia.
- Rurik gains control of Novgorod.
Births
Deaths
- April 13 – Donald I of Scotland
- July 2 – St. Swithun, English bishop
- August – Bugha al-Kabir, Abbasid general and governor (b. c. 775)
- September 26 – Musa ibn Musa ibn Qasi, Moorish leader in Spain
- November 30 – Máel Sechnaill mac Maíl Ruanaid, King of Mide and King of all Ireland