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Contents
Events
By Place
Europe
Asia
Births
Deaths

Events


By Place

Europe


Ethelred succeeds as king of Wessex (or 866).

Louis the German divides his kingdom among his sons.

Lothair, threatened with excommunication, takes back his first wife, Theutberga
Asia


★ A Russian expedition for the first time threatens Constantinople.

Bulgaria under Boris I converts to Orthodox Christianity.

Births



Hersent, Duchess of Lorraine, France

AbÅ« Bakr Muhammad ibn ZakarÄ«ya al-RÄzi, physician, philosopher, and scholar who discovererd alcohol.

Deaths



Saint Ansgar (b. 801)

Ragnar Lodbrok, King of Denmark and Sweden

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