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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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