860s
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
| Centuries: | 8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
| Decades: | 830s 840s 850s - 860s - 870s 880s 890s |
| Years: | 860 861 862 863 864 865 866 867 868 869 |
| Categories: | Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments |
[edit] Events and Trends
- Rurik establishes the state of Novgorod (later Kievan Rus')
- Basil I has first caesar Bardas (866), then emperor Michael III (867) murdered and thus rises to the power himself. One of his first acts is to depose and banish patriarch Photius I and reinstate patriarch Ignatius, who had been arrested and illegally deposed earlier.
- Unrest in the Abbasid Caliphate led to the reorganization of the Ghulam Turkic soldier-class as the more modern Mamluk system
