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This page relates to the year 863 Calendrier Julien.

Events

July 5th: Cyrille and Méthode arrive in Grande Moravie and start with the évangéliser.

At the request of Rotislav (Svjatopolk), which wishes to resist the Carolingian pressure, the Bohemia and the Moravie are évangélisées by Constantin- Cyrille (born towards 826) and Méthode (born towards 815), two brothers well-read men of Thessalonique. Method succeeded Photios as professor at the university. Constantin, polyglot, know the Slavic one perfectly spoken by the Macedonians and enjoy the reputation an informed grammairien. They translate the holy books and the liturgy into slavon and invent an alphabet derived from the Greek and increased signs to translate properly Slavic sonorities, the alphabet glagolitic, which will become later in Bulgarian country the alphabet Cyrillique. Cyrille and Method obtain a considerable popular success, whereas their Francs competitors were hated, even if Moravie turns quickly to Roman obedience.

the Patriarche of Constantinople Photios is excommunicated and deposited by the pope Nicolas I {{er}}, which affirms that the principle of its personal jurisdiction overrides the synods constantinopolitains. The schism with for leading cause a quarrel of jurisdiction in connection with the Bulgaria. The imperial capacity lines up behind Photios.

Countryside of the emir of Mélitène until Amisos followed by two great Byzantine victories (Petronas). The Arab army is destroyed in Poson, on the river Halys, in Anatolia.
has its death, Karbeas is replaced by its nephew and son-in-law Chrysocheir (gold hand) with the head of the Pauliciens.

the emperor Michel III subjects the Bulgarian king Boris Ier which gives up its alliance with Louis II Germanic the.

January 24th: Died of Charles, king of Provence and Burgundy, without heirs. His/her uncles Louis II and Charles the Bald person share the kingdom with the liking of the wishes of the local aristocracies.
October 4th: In the surroundings of Saintes, Turpion, count d' Angoulême indicator that Landry, count de Saintonge did not do anything, ose to defy the chief Normand Maur. The two adversaries precipitate one on the other with their horses and are transpierced mutually with their lances. The Normand S will be victorious but intimidated by the death of their chief their ships with their spoils regain after having plundered Saintes.

the Normand S go up the the Rhine while plundering. In October, those which were installed with the mouth of the Charente plunder Saintes, Angouleme, Poitiers, Ligugé and goes until Limoges.
Treated of Entrammes: the king of Brittany, Salaün, lends to fidelity to Charles the Bald person and receives the Maine and the west of the Anjou.
the pope breaks the decisions of the council of Metz which accepted the divorce of Lothaire II.
Dorestad, port prosperous of the mouth of the the Rhine (VIIe-IXe centuries), disappears brutally from the chronicles. Its decline, allotted to the Norman raids, is undoubtedly also due to the change of course of the river.

Beginning of the reign of Harald Ier of Norway, king of Vestfold, then of Norway in 872.

the Byzantine César Bardas opens with the Magnaure a public higher education with four pulpits (Grammaire, Géométrie, Astronomie, Philosophie) directed by Leon the Philosopher.

Cyrille and Méthode translates the Bible into Slavic.
Foundation of a school for the formation of the clergy at the Large court of Rotislav in Moravie.

January 24th: Charles of Provence
February 16th: Conrad Ier of Burgundy, count in Argengau, count de Paris and count d' Auxerre, Laic Abbot of Saint-Germain of Auxerre and Saint-Gall. (° v. 800).

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