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Contents

Events

By Place

Asia

Europe

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Asia

★ Fujiwara no Yoshifusa becomes regent of Japan, starting the Fujiwara regentship.

Europe

★ Alfonso III succeeds as king of Asturias.

★ Louis II beats the Saracen invaders in Italy.

★ Ivar the Boneless crosses over to England and beats and captures king Aella of Northumbria, thus revenging his father Ragnar Lodbrok.

★ Ethelred succeeds as king of Wessex (or 865).

★ A "great Viking army" captures York.

★ Harold Fairhair (850–933) wins a decisive battle in his quest to become king of all of Norway

By Topic

Religion

★ Pope Nicholas I forbids the use of torture in prosecutions for witchcraft.

Births

★ September 19 — Leo, Byzantine Emperor (d. 912)

Deaths

★ April — Bardas, co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire (murdered)

★ May 27 — King Ordono I of Asturias

★ al-Kindi, Muslim philosopher

★ Linji, Chinese monk of the Tang Dynasty who founded the Rinzai school of Buddhism