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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
| Decades: | 820s 830s 840s - 850s - 860s 870s 880s |
| Years: | 855 856 857 - 858 - 859 860 861 |
| 858 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 858 DCCCLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1611 |
| Armenian calendar | 307 ԹՎ ՅԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -986 – -985 |
| Berber calendar | 1808 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1402 |
| Burmese calendar | 220 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6366 – 6367 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁丑年十二月十三日 (3494/3554-12-13) — to —
戊寅年十一月廿三日(3495/3555-11-23) |
| Coptic calendar | 574 – 575 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 850 – 851 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4618 – 4619 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 913 – 914 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 780 – 781 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3959 – 3960 |
| Holocene calendar | 10858 |
| Iranian calendar | 236 – 237 |
| Islamic calendar | 243 – 244 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3191 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1401 |
- This article is about the year 858 A.D.. For the terrorist attack on Korean air, see Korean_Air_Flight_858.
Events
By Place
Europe
- Louis the German invades West Francia, hoping to secure Aquitaine from his brother Charles the Bald, but fails.
- Donald I succeeds the throne of Scotland.
Asia
- Emperor Seiwa ascends the throne of Japan.
- An enormous flood along the Grand Canal of China inundates large tracts of the North China Plain, killing tens of thousands of people and adding to the further decline of the Tang Dynasty.
By Topic
Religion
- April 24 — Pope Nicholas I succeeds Pope Benedict III as the 105th pope.
- Patriarch Ignatius is imprisoned and (December 25) deposed to be succeeded by Patriarch Photius I.
Births
Deaths
- January 13 — King Ethelwulf of Wessex
- April 7 — Pope Benedict III
- King Kenneth I of Scotland
- Emperor Montoku of Japan (b. 827)
- Li Shangyin, Chinese poet and official (b. c. 810 and 813)
