865
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 865 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 865 DCCCLXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1618 |
| Armenian calendar | 314 ԹՎ ՅԺԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5615 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 786–787 |
| Bengali calendar | 271–272 |
| Berber calendar | 1815 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1409 |
| Burmese calendar | 227 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6373–6374 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3562 or 3355 — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3563 or 3356 |
| Coptic calendar | 581–582 |
| Discordian calendar | 2031 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 857–858 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4625–4626 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 921–922 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 786–787 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3965–3966 |
| Holocene calendar | 10865 |
| Iranian calendar | 243–244 |
| Islamic calendar | 250–251 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōgan 7 (貞観７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 762–763 |
| Julian calendar | 865 DCCCLXV |
| Korean calendar | 3198 |
| Minguo calendar | 1047 before ROC 民前1047年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −603 |
| Seleucid era | 1176/1177 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1407–1408 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 991 or 610 or −162 — to — 阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 992 or 611 or −161 |
Year 865 (DCCCLXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Ethelred succeeds as king of Wessex (or 866).
- King Louis the German divides the East Frankish Kingdom among his three sons. Carloman receives Bavaria (with more lands along the Inn River). He gives Saxony to Louis the Younger (with Franconia and Thuringia) and Swabia (with Raetia) to Charles the Fat. Louis arranges marriages into the local aristocracy for his sons to hold important positions along the frontiers.
- Lothair, threatened with excommunication, takes back his first wife, Theutberga.
- Bulgaria under Boris I converts to Orthodox Christianity.
Births
- Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi, physician, philosopher, and scholar who discovererd alcohol
Deaths
- February 3 – Saint Ansgar, Frankish missionary, "the Apostle of the North" (b. 801)
- November 11 –
- Petronas, Byzantine general
- Antony the Younger, Byzantine monk and saint (b. 785)
- Ragnar Lodbrok, King of Denmark and Sweden
- Liu Gongquan