890

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	860s 870s 880s – 890s – 900s 910s 920s
Years:	887 888 889 – 890 – 891 892 893

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

890 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	890 DCCCXC
Ab urbe condita	1643
Armenian calendar	339 ԹՎ ՅԼԹ
Assyrian calendar	5640
Bengali calendar	297
Berber calendar	1840
Buddhist calendar	1434
Burmese calendar	252
Byzantine calendar	6398–6399
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3586 or 3526 — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3587 or 3527
Coptic calendar	606–607
Discordian calendar	2056
Ethiopian calendar	882–883
Hebrew calendar	4650–4651
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	946–947
- Shaka Samvat	812–813
- Kali Yuga	3991–3992
Holocene calendar	10890
Iranian calendar	268–269
Islamic calendar	276–277
Japanese calendar	Kanpyō 2 (寛平２年)
Julian calendar	890 DCCCXC
Korean calendar	3223
Minguo calendar	1022 before ROC 民前1022年
Seleucid era	1201/1202 AG
Thai solar calendar	1432–1433

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Year 890 (DCCCXC) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

The sovereignty of Great Moravian king Svatopluk I in Bohemia is confirmed.
Lusatia becomes a part of Great Moravia.
The Welsh ruler Anarawd ap Rhodri, King of Gwynedd, makes the first ceremonial visit to an English court (that of Alfred the Great).
Approximate date
- King Alfred the Great of England begins to commission and undertake a series of translations into Old English, beginning with his own version of Pope Gregory I's Pastoral Care.
- Ohthere of Hålogaland narrates the story of his travels to Alfred the Great, who arranges for it to be written down.
- The town of Kirby Muxloe is founded in England.