886

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This article is about the year 886. For other uses, see 886 (number).

For the processors, see 80886 - 8th generation x86 like Opteron and Core 2.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century - 9th century - 10th century
Decades:	850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s
Years:	883 884 885 - 886 - 887 888 889

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The Glagolitic alphabet, devised by Cyril and Methodius, missionaries from Constantinople, is adopted in the Bulgarian Empire.
Alfred the Great captures London and renames it Lundenburgh. The boundaries between Wessex and the Danelaw are shifted.
Alfred the Great builds a small harbour called Queenhythe slightly upstream from London Bridge.
Alfred the Great mints the first halfpenny. Previous halfpennies had been pennies cut in half.
Earl Aethelred is given control of London by Alfred the Great. Alfred's sister Ethelfleda marries Aethelred.
Khan Boris I of Bulgaria establishes the Preslav and Ohrid Literary Schools.
Charles II of France purchases peace with Vikings and Rollo of Normandy, then lifts his siege of Paris.
Odo, Count of Paris becomes Count of Anjou on the death of Hugh the Abbot.

Leo VI succeeds his stepfather Basil I as Byzantine emperor and replaces patriarch Photius with his brother Stephen I.

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