860s

Millennia:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century - 9th century - 10th century
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Years:	860 861 862 863 864 865 866 867 868 869
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Rurik establishes the state of Novgorod (later Kievan Rus')
Basil I has first caesar Bardas (866), then emperor Michael III (867) murdered and thus rises to the power himself. One of his first acts is to depose and banish patriarch Photius I and reinstate patriarch Ignatius, who had been arrested and illegally deposed earlier.

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