Year 856 (DCCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
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856 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar856
DCCCLVI
Ab urbe condita1609
Armenian calendar305
ԹՎ ՅԵ
Assyrian calendar5606
Balinese saka calendar777–778
Bengali calendar263
Berber calendar1806
Buddhist calendar1400
Burmese calendar218
Byzantine calendar6364–6365
Chinese calendar乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
3553 or 3346
    — to —
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
3554 or 3347
Coptic calendar572–573
Discordian calendar2022
Ethiopian calendar848–849
Hebrew calendar4616–4617
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat912–913
 - Shaka Samvat777–778
 - Kali Yuga3956–3957
Holocene calendar10856
Iranian calendar234–235
Islamic calendar241–242
Japanese calendarSaikō 3
(斉衡3年)
Javanese calendar753–754
Julian calendar856
DCCCLVI
Korean calendar3189
Minguo calendar1056 before ROC
民前1056年
Nanakshahi calendar−612
Seleucid era1167/1168 AG
Thai solar calendar1398–1399
Tibetan calendar阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
982 or 601 or −171
    — to —
阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
983 or 602 or −170
Rabanus Maurus (left) presents his work to archbishop Odgar of Mainz (right)

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Byzantine Empire

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Europe

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Britain

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Geology

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References

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  1. ^ Treadgold 1997, pp. 450–451.
  2. ^ Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, p. 18. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5.
  3. ^ Keynes 1998, p. 7; Abels 2002, p. 89.

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