871
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 840s 850s 860s – 870s – 880s 890s 900s |
| Years: | 868 869 870 – 871 – 872 873 874 |
| 871 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 871 DCCCLXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1624 |
| Armenian calendar | 320 ԹՎ ՅԻ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5621 |
| Bengali calendar | 278 |
| Berber calendar | 1821 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1415 |
| Burmese calendar | 233 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6379–6380 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3567 or 3507 — to — 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3568 or 3508 |
| Coptic calendar | 587–588 |
| Discordian calendar | 2037 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 863–864 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4631–4632 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 927–928 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 793–794 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3972–3973 |
| Holocene calendar | 10871 |
| Iranian calendar | 249–250 |
| Islamic calendar | 257–258 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōgan 13 (貞観１３年) |
| Julian calendar | 871 DCCCLXXI |
| Korean calendar | 3204 |
| Minguo calendar | 1041 before ROC 民前1041年 |
| Seleucid era | 1182/1183 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1413–1414 |
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Year 871 (DCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Nine battles are fought between the Danes and Wessex. Of two of them the place and date are not recorded, the others are:
- December 31, 870 – Englefield
- January 4 – Reading
- January 8 – Ashdown
- January 22 – Basing
- March 22 – Merton
- May – Wilton
- February 2 – Louis II captures Bari, the headquarters of the Saracens.
- Alfred the Great succeeds as king of Wessex after Ethelred's death.
- Reading, England is occupied by the Norse.
- After the battle at Wilton, peace is made, with the Danes and Alfred each governing part of England.
- Rhodri Mawr ('the Great') of Gwynedd inherits Seisyllwig, thus uniting most of Wales under his rule.
- Alfred makes Winchester his capital.
- An incomplete marriage contract, dated to October 6 of this year, is the earliest dated document in the Cairo Geniza.
- Tønsberg, the oldest surviving town in the Nordic countries, is founded.
- Svatopluk I becomes king of Great Moravia.
Births
- Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Madhara'i, senior official of the Tulunid, Abbasid and Ikhshidid dynasties (d. 957)
- Thrand, Jarl of Sula, Sweden
Deaths
- January 8 – King Bagsecg, Viking leader (at the Battle of Ashdown)
- April 23 – King Ethelred of Wessex (in battle)