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Calendar year
Calendar year
King
Æthelberht of Wessex (c. 836–865)
Year 860 (
DCCCLX ) was a
leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
Europe
King
Charles the Bald gives the order to build fortified bridges across the
Seine and
Loire Rivers, to protect Paris and the
Frankish heartland against
Viking raids. He hires the services of
Weland , a Viking chieftain based on the
Somme , to attack the Seine Vikings at their base on the
Isle of Oissel . Weland besieges the Vikings—they offer him a huge
bribe (6,000 pounds of
silver ) to let them escape.
[3]
Summer – The Viking chieftains
Hastein and
Björn Ironside ravage upstream and move to Italy, sacking
Luna (believing it to be Rome). They sail up the
River Arno to sack the cities of
Pisa and
Fiesole (
Tuscany ).
[4]
Summer – Viking raiders led by Weland sail to England and attack
Winchester (the capital of
Wessex ), which is set ablaze. He spreads inland, but is defeated by West Saxon forces, who deprive him of all he has gained.
[5]
December 20 – King
Æthelbald of Wessex dies after a 2½-year reign.
[6] He is succeeded by his brother, sub-king
Æthelberht of
Kent , who becomes sole ruler of Wessex.
[7]
Iberian Peninsula
By topic
Art
Communication
Religion
Births
Bertila of Spoleto , queen of
Italy (approximate date)
Donald II , king of
Scotland (approximate date)
Georgios I , king of
Makuria (approximate date)
Ibn Abd Rabbih , Moorish writer and
poet (d.
940 )
John X , pope of the
Catholic Church (d.
928 )
Ludmila , Bohemian duchess regent and saint (approximate date)
Odo I , king of the
West Frankish Kingdom (or
859 )
Robert I , king of the West Frankish Kingdom (or
866 )
Sancho Garcés I , king of
Pamplona (approximate date)
Sergius III , pope of the Catholic Church (approximate date)
Tudwal Gloff , Welsh prince (approximate date)
Vasugupta , Indian writer and
philosopher (d.
925 )
Deaths
December 3 –
Abbo , bishop of
Auxerre
December 20 –
Æthelbald , king of
Wessex
[6]
Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī , Muslim
mathematician
'Anbasah ibn Ishaq al-Dabbi , Muslim governor
Athanasia of Aegina , Byzantine noblewoman
Constantine Kontomytes , Byzantine general
Govindasvāmi , Indian
astronomer (approximate date)
Guy I , duke of
Spoleto (approximate date)
Halfdan the Black , Norwegian
nobleman
Sedulius Scottus , Irish grammarian
Tunberht , bishop of
Lichfield (approximate date)
References
^ Logan, Donald F. (1992). The Vikings in history (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 190.
ISBN
0-415-08396-6 .
^
Vasiliev, Alexander (1925). The Russian Attack on Constantinople in 860 . Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy of America. pp. 188–189.
^ John Haywood (1995). The Historical Atlas of the Vikings , pp. 60–61. Penguin Books:
ISBN
978-0-140-51328-8 .
^ John Haywood (1995). The Historical Atlas of the Vikings , p. 59. Penguin Books:
ISBN
978-0-140-51328-8 .
^ Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great , p. 20.
ISBN
978-1-59416-087-5 .
^
a
b
"Aethelbald - king of Wessex" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
^
"Aethelberht - king of Wessex" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
^ Martínez Diez, Gonzalo (2007). Sancho III el Mayor Rey de Pamplona, Rex Ibericus (in Spanish). Madrid: Marcial Pons Historia. p. 25.
ISBN
978-84-96467-47-7 .
JSTOR
j.ctt6wpw4q .