886

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

Events

• 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.
• Leo VI succeeds his stepfather Basil I as Byzantine emperor and replaces patriarch Photius with his brother Stephen I.
• Khan Boris I of Bulgaria establishes the Preslav and Ohrid Literary Schools.
• Charles II of France purchases peace with Vikings at Paris.