This page relates to the year 865 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Central Europe & Balkans

• Foundation of the Bulgarian Church which adopts the liturgy invented by Cyrille and Méthode.
• Conversion of Boris Ier and the Bulgarian to Byzantine Christianity. Boris takes the name of Michel and sends his son Siméon to receive education constantinopolitaine. The aristocracy of the boyards revolts.
• the Greek clergy organizes the Bulgarian Church, but Boris obtains a Bulgarian archbishop and bishops to preserve the independence of his Church.

• the Frank bishops of Passau and Ratisbon call of it with the pope Nicolas I {{er}}, which convenes Cyrille and Méthode with Rome.

British Isles

• Reign of Ethelred Ier, king of the Wessex (fine in 871).
• an important Danish troop (the “Large army”), ordered by three wire of Ragnar Lodbrok, Ívarr Beinlauss, Ubbi and Hálfdan, unloads in East Anglia of which it obtains a tribute. It is the first tribute paid by the English with the Viking S.

Worsen Carolingian

• July: Return of the Norman on the the Seine.
• the Viking S plunder Mantes, go up the Marne and burn Meaux. In October they devastate Poitiers, Orleans and the Abbaye of the St. Lawrence. They also devastate the Nivernais, the Donziois and the Auxerrois.
• Beginning of the reign of Louis the Stammerer, king of Neustrie Western
• Robert the Fort, marquis of the steps of Brittany receives compensations in Burgundy with the advent of Louis the Stammerer in Neustrie Occidentale. Louis will show such an incompetence in the fight against the Viking S that Charles the Bald person will point out Robert to replace it.
• Beginning of the reign of Carloman, king of Bavaria.
• Louis of Saxony obtains from his/her father Louis II the Franconie, the Thuringe and the Saxony, then revolts against this one.
• Evrard (Unrochides), becomes marquis of the Friuli (Italy).

Spain

• the Viking S present last once to the mouth of the Tage with 28 ships. They undergo a defeat in the south more. According to the Moroccan historian Ibn Adhari, the sultan would thereafter have given orders to build ships of monitoring to the image of the ships Viking S.

Art & culture

• Of divisione naturae (On the division of Nature, 865 - 870) of Jean Scot Erigène, work which subscribes to the doctrines of the Panthéisme. Erigene rejects the belief of Christian orthodoxy in the creation of the universe ex nihilo . The world of space and time is the manifestation of the ideas contained in the spirit of God, culminating point of any evolution.

Births in 865

• Robert Ier, king de France.

Death in 865

• February 3rd: Anschaire, archbishop of Hamburg and Bremen.

• Paschase Radbert, thélogien founder of the abbey of Corvey
• Rorgon II of Maine
• Ethelbert, king of the Wessex of 862 with 865.

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