Years: 851 852 853 854 - 855 - 856 857 858 859

Decades: 820s 830s 840s - 850s - 860s 870s 880s

Centuries: 8th century - 9th century - 10th century

Events

• Louis II succeeds Lothar as western emperor. Two other sons, Lothar II and Charles, also get parts of the kingdom.
• Succession of Pope Benedict III (855 - 858). Anastasius is made anti-pope by Lothair.
• Ethelwulf, king of Wessex and Bretwalda, abdicates in favor of his son Ethelbald.
• Ethelwulf grants the English churches the right to receive tithes.
• Edmund becomes king of East Anglia.

Births

Deaths

• Lothar, western emperor
• Pope Leo IV (847 - 855)

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