865

Decades: 810s 820s 830s 840s 850s - 860s - 870s 880s 890s 900s 910s

Years: 860 861 862 863 864 - 865 - 866 867 868 869 870

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• Ethelred succeeds as king of Wessex (or 866).
• Ragnar Lodbrok invades England, but is defeated by king Ella of Northumbria
• A Russian expedition for the first time threatens Constantinople.
• Louis the German divides his kingdom among his sons.
• Lothair, threatened with excommunication, takes back his first wife,
• Harald Harfagre (850-933) becomes king of Norway, the first king to rule over most of (but not all of) Norway

• Robert I, king of France (approximate date)

• Ragnar Lodbrok, King of Denmark and Sweden
• Ethelbert, king of Wessex (or 866)