History
860
General
Population: 226 Million*
- Language: Cyrillic alphabet created
- Religion: False Decretals forged to help rights of diocesan bishops
- Science: Al Jahiz describes 350 varieties of animals in his book, also mentions "struggle for existence"
- Deaths: Scottish King Kenneth MacAlpin, Caliph Mottawakkil
Asia
- Cambodia: Founding of Angkor Thom in Cambodia
- India: Pallava dynasty in s India replaced by the Cholas
- Tibet: State of Tibet collapses
Europe
- Denmark: Gorm the elder unites Jutland and Danish isles – becomes king of Denmark
- England: Ethelbert son of Ethelwulf rules Wessex to 865
Vikings conquer all British kingdoms but Wessex
- France: End of famine in Paris
- Russia: Vikings rule at Novgorod in Russia
Start of Kievan kingdom of Rus in the Volga
- Scotland: Kenneth MacAlpin unites northern Scotland and dies