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886| 836–890 | India [administration] | After the disasters of Ramabhadra's reign, his son, King Bhoja I, restores the Gurjara kingdom as the leading power of northern India. | | 886 | Wessex, Denmark [administration] | King Alfred the Great of Wessex, England, expels the Danes from London and, in a treaty with the Danish king Guthrum, defines the frontier of the ‘Danelaw’, the area of eastern England which is to be ruled by the Danes. | | 29 August 886 | Byzantine Empire [births and deaths] | Basil the Macedonian, Byzantine emperor (867–86), who founded the Macedonian dynasty and formulated the Basilica, the Byzantine legal code, dies (c. 56). | | October 886 | Carolingian Empire, Scandinavia [wars] | After almost a year under siege by the Vikings, Paris is finally relieved by the Frankish emperor Charles III the Fat, but instead of fighting the Vikings he pays them 318 kg/700 lb of silver and allows them to sail further up the River Seine to raid in Burgundy. |
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