886

886 (DCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 886th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 886th year of the 1st millennium, the 86th year of the 9th century, and the 7th year of the 880s decade. As of the start of 886, the Gregorian calendar was 4 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

886 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	886 DCCCLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1639
Armenian calendar	335 ԹՎ ՅԼԵ
Assyrian calendar	5636
Balinese saka calendar	807–808
Bengali calendar	293
Berber calendar	1836
Buddhist calendar	1430
Burmese calendar	248
Byzantine calendar	6394–6395
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3582 or 3522     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3583 or 3523
Coptic calendar	602–603
Discordian calendar	2052
Ethiopian calendar	878–879
Hebrew calendar	4646–4647
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	942–943
- Shaka Samvat	807–808
- Kali Yuga	3986–3987
Holocene calendar	10886
Iranian calendar	264–265
Islamic calendar	272–273
Japanese calendar	Ninna 2 (仁和２年)
Javanese calendar	784–785
Julian calendar	886 DCCCLXXXVI
Korean calendar	3219
Minguo calendar	1026 before ROC 民前1026年
Nanakshahi calendar	−582
Seleucid era	1197/1198 AG
Thai solar calendar	1428–1429
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) 1012 or 631 or −141     — to — མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Horse) 1013 or 632 or −140

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.