Centuries:	8th century - 9th century - 10th century
Decades:	820s  830s  840s  - 850s -  860s  870s  880s
Years:	855 856 857 - 858 - 859 860 861

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Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

858 in other calendars

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
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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

• Gao Jixing

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)