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 |
| 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 | 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1012 or 631 or −141 — to — 阳火马年 (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.