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865 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Years: 861 862 863 864 - 865 - 866 867 868 869
Decades: 830s 840s 850s - 860s - 870s 880s 890s
Centuries: 8th century - 9th century - 10th century

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

Ethelred succeeds as king of Wessex (or 866).
Ragnar Lodbrok invades England, but is defeated by king Ella of Northumbria
A Russian expedition for the first time threatens Constantinople.
Louis the German divides his kingdom among his sons.
Lothair, threatened with excommunication, takes back his first wife,
Harald Harfagre (850-933) becomes king of Norway, the first king to rule over most of (but not all of) Norway

Births

Robert I, king of France (approximate date)

Deaths

February 3 - Saint Ansgar
Ragnar Lodbrok, King of Denmark and Sweden
Ethelbert, king of Wessex (or 866)

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