856
| Years |
|---|
| Millennium |
| 1st millennium |
| Centuries |
| Decades |
| Years |
| 856 by topic |
|---|
| Leaders |
| Categories |
|
| Gregorian calendar | 856 DCCCLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1609 |
| Armenian calendar | 305 ԹՎ ՅԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5606 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 777–778 |
| Bengali calendar | 262–263 |
| Berber calendar | 1806 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1400 |
| Burmese calendar | 218 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6364–6365 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3553 or 3346 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3554 or 3347 |
| Coptic calendar | 572–573 |
| Discordian calendar | 2022 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 848–849 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4616–4617 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 912–913 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 777–778 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3956–3957 |
| Holocene calendar | 10856 |
| Iranian calendar | 234–235 |
| Islamic calendar | 241–242 |
| Japanese calendar | Saikō 3 (斉衡３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 753–754 |
| Julian calendar | 856 DCCCLVI |
| Korean calendar | 3189 |
| Minguo calendar | 1056 before ROC 民前1056年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −612 |
| Seleucid era | 1167/1168 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1398–1399 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 982 or 601 or −171 — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 983 or 602 or −170 |
Year 856 (DCCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.