870
This article is about the year 870. For the number, see 870 (number). For the shotgun, see Remington 870.
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
Decades: | 840s 850s 860s – 870s – 880s 890s 900s |
Years: | 867 868 869 – 870 – 871 872 873 |
870 by topic | |
Politics | |
State leaders – Sovereign states | |
Birth and death categories | |
Births – Deaths | |
Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
Establishments – Disestablishments | |
Gregorian calendar | 870 DCCCLXX |
Ab urbe condita | 1623 |
Armenian calendar | 319 ԹՎ ՅԺԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 5620 |
Bengali calendar | 277 |
Berber calendar | 1820 |
Buddhist calendar | 1414 |
Burmese calendar | 232 |
Byzantine calendar | 6378–6379 |
Chinese calendar | 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3566 or 3506 — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3567 or 3507 |
Coptic calendar | 586–587 |
Discordian calendar | 2036 |
Ethiopian calendar | 862–863 |
Hebrew calendar | 4630–4631 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 926–927 |
- Shaka Samvat | 792–793 |
- Kali Yuga | 3971–3972 |
Holocene calendar | 10870 |
Iranian calendar | 248–249 |
Islamic calendar | 256–257 |
Japanese calendar | Jōgan 12 (貞観12年) |
Julian calendar | 870 DCCCLXX |
Korean calendar | 3203 |
Minguo calendar | 1042 before ROC 民前1042年 |
Seleucid era | 1181/1182 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1412–1413 |
Year 870 (DCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Abbasid Caliphate
- June: Murder of Caliph al-Muhtadi and accession of al-Mu'tamid. End of the "Anarchy at Samarra".
Europe
- Prague Castle is founded.
- The Great Summer Army invades England led by Bagsecg and conquers East Anglia; the buildings destroyed by the Danish invaders include the abbey of Ely and the monastery of Peterborough.
- August 8 – Treaty of Meerssen: Charles the Bald and Louis the German divide Lotharingia among themselves.
- December 31 – The Danes are defeated by a Saxon army at Englefield, Berkshire. It is the first of a series of battles between Wessex and the Danes.
- Malta is conquered by Arabs from Sicily.
- Borivoj becomes duke of Bohemia.
- Charles the Bald marries Richilde.
By topic
Religion
- Michael II succeeds Michael I as Patriarch of Alexandria.
- The Autonomous Bulgarian Archbishopric is established.
- Christianization of the Serbs
- February 28 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople ends.
Births
- Zwentibold, King of Lotharingia
Deaths
- November 20 – King Edmund the Martyr
- Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, Persian hadith compiler
- Al-Kindi, philosopher
References
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