875
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 840s 850s 860s – 870s – 880s 890s 900s |
| Years: | 872 873 874 – 875 – 876 877 878 |
| 875 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 875 DCCCLXXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1628 |
| Armenian calendar | 324 ԹՎ ՅԻԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5625 |
| Bengali calendar | 282 |
| Berber calendar | 1825 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1419 |
| Burmese calendar | 237 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6383–6384 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3571 or 3511 — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3572 or 3512 |
| Coptic calendar | 591–592 |
| Discordian calendar | 2041 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 867–868 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4635–4636 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 931–932 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 797–798 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3976–3977 |
| Holocene calendar | 10875 |
| Iranian calendar | 253–254 |
| Islamic calendar | 261–262 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōgan 17 (貞観１７年) |
| Julian calendar | 875 DCCCLXXV |
| Korean calendar | 3208 |
| Minguo calendar | 1037 before ROC 民前1037年 |
| Seleucid era | 1186/1187 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1417–1418 |
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Year 875 (DCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- December 29 – Charles the Bald, king of West Francia, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Charles II.
- Battle of Dollar fought at Dollar in the Kingdom of Scotland: Danes invading under Thorstem defeat the men of Alba under King Constantine, going on to occupy Caithness, Sutherland, Ross and Moray, far to the north.[1]
- Danes capture Lindisfarne and arrive in Cambridge.
- Harald Fairhair subdues the rovers on Orkney and Shetland and adds them to his kingdom.
- Vikings, probably led by Halfdan Ragnarsson, invade Dublin and Eystein Olafsson, King of Dublin, is killed.[2]
- Donyarth, last recorded King of Cornwall, drowns in what is thought to be the River Fowey.[3]
Asia
- In Champa, in the central region of modern-day Vietnam, King Indravarman II founds a new dynasty at Indrapura (Quảng Nam) and initiates a building program featuring the Dong Duong Style of Cham art.
Africa
Births
- Fujiwara no Nakahira, Japanese statesman (d. 945)
Deaths
- May – Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, Persian muhaddith (b. c.817/22)
- August 12 – Louis II of Italy, imperator Romanorum (b. 825)
- October 28 – Remigius of Lyon, archbishop
- November 11 – Teutberga, queen consort of Lotharingia
- 'Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Yazdad al-Marwazi, Persian official of the Abbasid Caliphate
- Ado, Archbishop of Vienne, Lotharingia
- Donyarth, King of Cornwall
- Eystein Olafsson, Norse–Gael King of Dublin
- Amram Gaon, Jewish liturgist
- Martianus Hiberniensis, Irish-born teacher and calligrapher
References
- ↑ Bruce, George (1981). Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles. Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN 0442223366.
- ↑ Annals of Ulster.
- ↑ Annales Cambriae.