869

This page relates to the year 869 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Worsen Carolingian

Charles the Bald person is crowned king of Lorraine to Metz. Hincmar affirms that oiling is the proof that god chose it.

maritime Operation of the Arab in the Camargue: the bishop of Arles, Roland, is captured and a ransom is versed. Roland will be found died.
a revolt of the peasants between the Seine and the Loire against the Norman ones is crushed by the franque cavalry.
the cities must be closed.

Italy

the Magyars put the Italian troops in rout at Brenta.
the Arabs seize Malta (in fact in 870: Ahmed, the son of the emir of Tunis had unloaded in Malta into 869 but was held there in failure by the garrison Byzantine E. One needs the arrival of the reinforcements come from Sicily so that the island falls to the hands from the Arab , in 870)

Central Europe & Balkans

February 4th: With died of Cyrille in Rome, his brother Méthode is named by the pope Adrien II, which approves the liturgy in slavon, archbishop of Pannonia to the head of all the Slaves.

Worsen Byzantine

October 5th: Opening of the ecumenical IVe council of Constantinople (fine the February 28th 870): judgment of Photios by Ignace.

Basile Ier associates his sons with the empire: Constantin in 869, Leon in 870 and Alexandre in 871.

Raid of the Pauliciens of Chrysocheir to Éphèse and Nicée.

The Middle East & Arab world

Beginning of the revolt of the Slave S blacks Zandj in Iraq with Bassora (fine in 883). The slaves black of the plantations of cane with sugar revolt with the call of Ali Ben Mohammed Al Alawi. The relations between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf are disturbed.

the caliph Al-Mutazz is thrown in prison by the Turkish military chiefs and dies of hunger and thirst.
Beginning of the Caliphate of Al-Muhtadi (fine in 870).

Art & culture

Arab Translation of the Old Testament by Hunayn Ibn Ishak.

Births in 869

Death in 869

February 4th: Cyrille, Philosopher and Greek priest, evangelist of the Slavic .
August 8th: Lothaire II, king of Lotharingie.

Al-Jahiz, Arab writer, with Basra.
Soufi Ibn Karam, creator of the brotherhood of Karamiyya.
Ermentrude of Orleans (° 825), downward of Charles Martel, it married Charles II the Bald person in 846

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