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

• March 2 - Lothar, western emperor (b. 795)
• Pope Leo IV