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868
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| 868 by topic |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
868 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
868
DCCCLXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita |
1621 |
| Armenian calendar |
317
ԹՎ ՅԺԷ |
| Chinese calendar |
3564 – 3565
丁亥 – 戊子 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
860 – 861 |
| Hebrew calendar |
4628 – 4629 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
923 – 924 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
790 – 791 |
| - Kali Yuga |
3969 – 3970 |
| Iranian calendar |
246 – 247 |
| Islamic calendar |
254 – 255 |
Events
- 11 May: Printing of The Diamond Sutra, the oldest dated printed book.
- Aghlabid dynasty of Tunisia takes Malta.
- In Metz, Charles the Bald and Louis the German decide on a division of the lands of former emperor Lothar (now in possession of Lothar II and Louis II).
- In England Alfred the Great marries Ealhswith and goes to the aid of Burgred of Mercia, who is attacked by Danes.
- Ratramnus writes Contra Graecorum opposita.
- Establishment of the First County of Portugal, by Vímara Peres, after the reconquest from the Moors of the region north of the Douro river.
- Aed Finliath drives invading Danes and Norwegians out of Ireland after defeating them at the Battle of Killineery.
Births
- Muhammad al-Mahdi, Shia Imam
Deaths
- July 1 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (b. 828)
- Al-Jahiz, an Arabic prose writer, historian, and author of works of adab, Mu'tazili theology, and politico-religious polemics (b. 776).
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