888

This article is about the year 888. For the number, see 888 (number). For other uses, see 888 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	850s 860s 870s – 880s – 890s 900s 910s
Years:	885 886 887 – 888 – 889 890 891

888 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

888 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	888 DCCCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1641
Armenian calendar	337 ԹՎ ՅԼԷ
Assyrian calendar	5638
Bengali calendar	295
Berber calendar	1838
Buddhist calendar	1432
Burmese calendar	250
Byzantine calendar	6396–6397
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3584 or 3524 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3585 or 3525
Coptic calendar	604–605
Discordian calendar	2054
Ethiopian calendar	880–881
Hebrew calendar	4648–4649
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	944–945
- Shaka Samvat	810–811
- Kali Yuga	3989–3990
Holocene calendar	10888
Iranian calendar	266–267
Islamic calendar	274–275
Japanese calendar	Ninna 4 (仁和４年)
Julian calendar	888 DCCCLXXXVIII
Korean calendar	3221
Minguo calendar	1024 before ROC 民前1024年
Seleucid era	1199/1200 AG
Thai solar calendar	1430–1431

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Year 888 (DCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January 13 – With the death of Charles the Fat, the Frankish kingdom and is split again, and this time permanently. Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Western Franks. The Carolingian Empire soon falls.
Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi succeeds Al-Mundhir as emir of Córdoba, Spain.