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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
882 883 884 885 - 886 - 887 888 889 890 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
8th century - 9th century - 10th century |} Events * The Glagolitic alphabet, devised by Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius, missionaries from Constantinople, is adopted in the Bulgaria. * Alfred the Great captures London and renames it Lundenburgh. The boundaries between Wessex and the Danelaw are shifted. * Alfred the Great builds a small harbour called Queenhythe slightly upstream from London Bridge. * Alfred the Great mints the first halfpenny. Previous halfpennies had been pennies cut in half. * Earl Earl Aethelred of Mercia is given control of London by Alfred the Great. Alfred's sister Ethelfleda marries Aethelred. * Leo VI succeeds his stepfather Basil I as Byzantine emperor and replaces Patriarch of Constantinople Photius with his brother Stephen Porphyrogometus. * Boris I of Bulgaria establishes the Preslav Literary School and Ohrid Literary School. * Charles the Bald of France purchases peace with Vikings at Paris. Births * Deaths * August 29 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor 886

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