886

This article is about the year 886. For the processor, see 80886. For roads, see List of highways numbered 886. For the song by Fiona Sit, see 886 (song).

886 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	886 DCCCLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1639
Armenian calendar	335 ԹՎ ՅԼԵ
Assyrian calendar	5636
Balinese saka calendar	807–808
Bengali calendar	292–293
Berber calendar	1836
Buddhist calendar	1430
Burmese calendar	248
Byzantine calendar	6394–6395
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood  Snake) 3583 or 3376     — to — 丙午年 (Fire  Horse) 3584 or 3377
Coptic calendar	602–603
Discordian calendar	2052
Ethiopian calendar	878–879
Hebrew calendar	4646–4647
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	942–943
- Shaka Samvat	807–808
- Kali Yuga	3986–3987
Holocene calendar	10886
Iranian calendar	264–265
Islamic calendar	272–273
Japanese calendar	Ninna 2 (仁和２年)
Javanese calendar	784–785
Julian calendar	886 DCCCLXXXVI
Korean calendar	3219
Minguo calendar	1026 before ROC 民前1026年
Nanakshahi calendar	−582
Seleucid era	1197/1198 AG
Thai solar calendar	1428–1429
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) 1012 or 631 or −141     — to — མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Horse) 1013 or 632 or −140

Emperor Leo VI (the Wise) (866–912)

Year 886 ( DCCCLXXXVI ) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• March – A wide-ranging conspiracy against Emperor Basil I, led by John Kourkouas, is uncovered. ^[1]
• August 29 – Emperor Basil I the Macedonian dies from a fever, contracted after a hunting accident. He is succeeded by the 19-year-old Leo VI, officially Basil's son, but reputedly a son of former emperor Michael III, as sole ruler ( basileus ) of the Byzantine Empire. After his coronation Leo reburies the remains of his reputed father Michael, with great ceremony in the imperial mausoleum, within the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople. ^[2]

Europe

• October – Siege of Paris: Count Odo slips through Viking-controlled territory, to ask the king of West Francia Charles the Fat for support. He returns with a relief force, and reaches safety within the walls. Charles arrives later with a large army, and establishes a camp at Montmartre. After negotiations he promises the Vikings tribute (Danegeld) worth 700 Livres (equivalent to 257kg of silver), and allows them to sail up the River Seine, to over-winter in Burgundy.

Britain

• King Alfred the Great of Wessex recaptures London from the Danish Vikings, and renames it Lundenburh. Slightly upstream from London Bridge, he builds a small harbor called Queenhithe. Alfred hands the town over to his son-in-law Æthelred, lord of Mercia. A street system is planned out in the town, with boundaries of 1,100 yards from east to west, and around 330 yards from north to south. ^[3]

• King Alfred receives the formal submission of all of the citizens of England not under Viking rule, and adopts the title King of the Anglo-Saxons.

By topic

Religion

• December – Emperor Leo VI dismisses Patriarch Photius I, who has been his tutor, and replaces him with his own brother Stephen I. ^[4]
• The Glagolitic alphabet, devised by Cyril and Methodius, missionaries from Constantinople, is adopted in the Bulgarian Empire.
• Boris I, ruler ( khan ) of the Bulgarian Empire, establishes the Preslav and Ohrid Literary Schools.

Births

• Ibn Muqlah, Muslim official and vizier (or 885)
• Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto, Japanese poet (approximate date)
• Yang Wo, emperor of Wu (Ten Kingdoms) (d. 908)

Deaths

• March 9 – Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, Muslim scholar and astrologer (b. 787)
• August 29 – Basil I, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (b. 811)
• Adalbert I, Frankish margrave (approximate date)
• Airemón mac Áedo, king of Ulaid (Ireland)
• Bernard Plantapilosa, Frankish nobleman (b. 841)
• Deorlaf, bishop of Hereford (approximate date)
• Fiachnae mac Ainbítha, king of Ulaid
• Gao Renhou, Chinese general
• Henry of Franconia, Frankish general
• Heongang, king of Silla (Korea)
• Hugh, archbishop of Cologne
• Joscelin, bishop of Paris
• Li Quanzhong, Chinese warlord
• Li Sigong, Chinese warlord (approximate date)
• Lu Yanhong, Chinese warlord
• Min Xu, governor of the Tang Dynasty
• Muhammad I, Muslim emir of Córdoba (b. 823)
• Robert I, Frankish nobleman
• Wang Xu, Chinese warlord
• Wulgrin I, Frankish nobleman
• Zhuge Shuang, Chinese general

References

1. Lilie, Ralph-Johannes; Ludwig, Claudia; Pratsch, Thomas; Zielke, Beate (2013). "Ioannes Kurkuas (#22824)". Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Nach Vorarbeiten F. Winkelmanns erstellt (in German). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.
2. Finlay, p. 307.
3. Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, p. 108. ISBN   978-1-59416-087-5.
4. Norwich, p. 104.