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Events

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Europe

• Constantine I succeeds as king of Scotland (or 862).
• After the death of Charles, Lothair takes part of the Jura and Louis II takes the Provence.
• Carloman revolts against his father Louis the German a second time.
• The first written record of Smolensk.

Asia

• The Tang Dynasty Chinese author Duan Chengshi writes about Chinese maritime trade in East Africa, and the Arab-run slave trade there.

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Religion

• Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius come to Great Moravia upon a request of Prince Rastislav.
• Pope Nicholas I excommunicates Patriarch Photius I of Constantinople.

Births

Deaths

• Duan Chengshi

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