867

This page relates to the year 867 Calendrier Julien.

Events

the Northumbrie NS fail to take again the town of York to the Danes and fall under their domination.
Taken Nottingham by the Danes. Against the south, they run up against the combined resistance of the kings of Mercie, the Wessex and East Anglia. Ívarr and Ubbi progress then towards south-east, still take some cities and kill the king of East Anglia, Edmund (870).
Of 867 with 875, the Scandinavians plunder systematically the Northumbrie and all the England average.

the Viking S, with at their head the Hâsteinn Dane, plunder Bourges.
Gerard, count of Bourges, is transferred by Charles the Bald person to the profit of Effroi which must seize the county the weapons to the hand. Fear is killed and Gerard preserves his good.

By the Treated of Compiegne, is made concession of the peninsula of the Cotentin and the Avranchin to Solomon. It is then the maximum extension of the Brittany. The Breton border reaches the Mayenne and the Dive.

the Viking S seize Angers (867-873). The king Charles the Bald person digs a channel, threatening to divert the course of Maine. Anxious to see their boats finding itself dry, they leave the city.

Charles the Bald person makes gift of Chablis to the monks of Martin Saint of Tours.

December 14th: Beginning of the Pontificate of Adrien II (fine in 872).
Venice acts against Bari by sea (867 - 871) with the Byzantine and Louis II which attacks the city by the ground.

Schism of the patriarch Photios: a council joins together by Michel III with Constantinople excommunicates the pope Nicolas I {{er}}, condemns its interventions in the East (Bulgaria) and shows Rome of heresy in connection with liturgical practices and the Filioque (the Holy Spirit proceeds of the Father and the Son).

September 25th: Basile assassinates Michel III and founds the dynasty Macedonian (867 - 1057).
At the end of September, the patriarch of Constantinople Photios is deposited by Basile in favor of Ignace, which is reinstalled the November 23rd (fine provisional of the Schisme of the East).
November: Beginning of the reign of Basile Ier the Macedonian, Byzantine Emperor (fine in 886).

Beginning of the Byzantine offensive of Basile Ier in Minor Asia, which seeks to control the roads of invasion systematically and to extend its borders.
Economic reform and administrative. Consolidation of the political system.
to reduce the fiscal charges of the small holders, Basile Ier agrees to let to them cultivate grounds for which they do not appear in the register of the tax department.

the patriarch Photios founds one évêché with Kiev for the Slaves and the Varègue S which, in contact with Byzance in 860, converted with Christianity.

Foundation of the dynasty of the Saffarides which dominates the Afghanistan until the end of XVe century. Ya `qûb bin Layth have-Saffâr (the “ironmonger”) seizes the Sistan, takes Chiraz and the Fars and founds the dynasty of Saffarides (867 - 909).

the pope Adrien II accommodates in Rome Cyrille and Méthode and approves the translation of the texts of the liturgy in slavon.
the patriarch Photius declares the Church Byzantine independent of Rome.
the Byzantine mosaics are created in the basilica Holy-Sophie with Constantinople.

February 11th: Théodora, wife of the Byzantine emperor Theophilus, regent of the empire of 842 with 856.
September 25th: Michel III, Byzantine Emperor.
November 13rd: Nicolas Ier (pope)

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