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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
854 855 856 857 - 858 - 859 860 861 862\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
820s 830s 840s - 850s - 860s 870s 880s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
8th century - 9th century - 10th century\n|} Events\n*Patriarch Ignatius is imprisoned and (December 25) deposed to be succeeded by patriarch Photius I.\n*Louis the German invades West Francia, hoping to secure Aquitaine from his brother Charles the Bald, but fails.\n*Emperor Seiwa ascends the throne of Japan.\n*Nicholas I becomes pope.\n*Donald I succeeds the throne of Scotland. Births Deaths\n*Kenneth I of Scotland\n*January 13: Ethelwulf, king of Wessex\n*Emperor Montoku of Japan\n*Pope Benedict III \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n