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Events

By place

Europe

• Emperor Lothair I meets his (half) brothers (Louis the German and Charles the Bald) in Attigny, Ardennes for the third time, to continue the system of "con-fraternal government".
• Viking chieftains Rorik and Godfrid Haraldsson return to Denmark, to gain power after the death of King Horik I. During a civil war, they are forced to go back to Friesland.
• The German city of Ulm is first mentioned, in a document by Louis the German.
• Croatian–Bulgarian battle: Bulgarian Khan (later Knyaz) Boris I, attacks the Duchy of Littoral Croatia, ruled by Duke Trpimir I during the First Croatian-Bulgarian War. It is fought on the Croatian territory in the vicinity of the Croatian–Bulgarian border in present-day northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. None of the warring sides emerges victorious, Bulgarian forces retreat and finally both parties subsequently conclude a peace treaty.

Britain

• King Æthelwulf of Wessex sends his two youngest sons, Alfred and Æthelred, on a pilgrimage to Rome.
• King Æthelweard of East Anglia dies, and is succeeded by his 14-year-old son Edmund ("the Martyr").
• King Cyngen of Powys makes the first pilgrimage to Rome of a Welsh ruler.
• Viking chieftain Ubba winters in Milford Haven (Wales) with 23 ships.

By topic

Religion

• Eardulf becomes bishop of Lindisfarne, after the death of Eanbert.

Births

• Al-Mu'tadid, Muslim caliph (or 861)
• Cadell ap Rhodri, king of Seisyllwg (d. 909)
• Cui Yin, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 904)
• Theobald the Elder, Frankish nobleman (d. 942)

Deaths

• Abu Thawr, Muslim scholar (b. 764)
• Æthelweard, king of East Anglia
• Eanbert, bishop of Lindisfarne
• Horik I, Viking king of Denmark
• Liudger, bishop of Utrecht (approximate date)
• Osburh, queen of Wessex (approximate date)
• Sahnun ibn Sa'id, Muslim jurist (or 855)
• Túathal mac Máele-Brigte, king of Leinster
• Wang Yuankui, Chinese general (b. 812)
• Wigmund, archbishop of York

References

References

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2. [http://www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin/2016/48/stadtgeburtstag-alter-staedte-deutschlandkarte Zeit.de: Das Alter der Städte]
3. (2021-11-13). "Boris I". Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc..
4. Fine, John van Antwerp. (13 November 2021). "The Early Medieval Balkans, page 112". The University of Michigan Press, 1983.
5. Deliso, Christopher. (13 November 2021). "The History of Croatia and Slovenia, page 46". ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2020, Santa Barbara, California.
6. ''ASC'' 854 - English translation at [http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/657/pg657.html Project Gutenberg]
7. Kirby, ''The Earliest English Kings'', p. 161.
8. [http://www.milfordhaventowncouncil.org.uk/Milford%20History%20Section/history_time_line_main.htm Milford Haven Town Council website ''History'', Chronology of Events] {{webarchive. link. (March 13, 2012)