List of state leaders in 871

This is a list of heads of state, government leaders, and other rulers in the year 871.

Asia

• China (Tang dynasty) – Emperor Yizong (859–873)
• Pratihara Empire – Mihira Bhoja I (c. 836–886)
• Japan (Heian period) – Emperor Seiwa (858–876)
• Korea (North South States Period)
  • Balhae –
    1. Dae Geonhwang (857–871)
    2. Dae Hyeonseok (871–893)
  • Unified Silla – Gyeongmun (861–875)

Europe

• First Bulgarian Empire – Boris I, Knyaz of Bulgaria (852–889)
• Byzantine Empire – Basil I (867–886)
• Caucasus
  • Principality of Iberia – Bagrat I Kuropalates (830–876)
  • Principality of Kakheti – Gabriel (861–881)
  • Tao-Klarjeti – Sumbat I Mampali (c. 870–889)
• Duchy of Croatia – Domagoj (864–876)
• Kingdom of Denmark – Bagsecg (c. 866–c. 871)
• England (Heptarchy) –
  • Danelaw –
    • Kingdom of East Anglia – Oswald (869–876)
    • Kingdom of Northumbria – Ecgberht I (867–872)
  • Kingdom of Mercia – Burgred (852–874)
  • Kingdom of Wessex –
    1. Æthelred (865–871)
    2. Alfred the Great (871–899)
• East Francia – Louis the German (843–876)
  • Duchy of Alsace – Hugh, Duke of Alsace (867–885)
  • March of Pannonia –
    1. William II (until 871)
    2. Engelschalk I (until 871)
    3. Aribo of Austria (871–909)
  • Duchy of Saxony – Bruno (866–880)
  • Duchy of Thuringia – Thachulf (849–873)
• West Francia – Charles the Bald (843–877)
  • County of Angoulême – Wulgrin I (866–886)
  • Kingdom of Aquitaine – Louis the Stammerer (866–877)
  • County of Barcelona – Bernard II (865–878)
  • Kingdom of Brittany – Salomon (857–874)
  • County of Flanders – Baldwin I (862–879)
  • County of Maine – Gauzfrid (865–878)
  • March of Neustria – Gauzfrid, Count of Maine (865–878)
  • County of Poitiers – Bernard of Gothia (866–877)
  • County of Toulouse – Bernard II (865–877)
  • County of Tours – Hugh the Abbot (866–886)
  • County of Troyes –
    1. Odo I (866–871)
    2. Odo II (871–876)
  • County of Urgell – Wilfred the Hairy (870–897)
• Duchy of Gascony – Sans III Mitarra (864–893)
• Ireland – Áed Findliath, High King of Ireland (862–879)
  • Kingdom of Ailech – Áed Findliath (c. 855–879)
  • Kingdom of Connacht – Mugron mac Máel Cothaid (848–872)
  • Uí Maine –
  • Kingdom of Leinster –
  • Kingdom of Mide – Donnchad mac Aedacain (864–877)
  • Kingdom of Munster – Cenn Fáelad hua Mugthigirn (861–872)
  • Kingdom of Osraige – Cerball mac Dúnlainge (842–888)
  • Kingdom of Ulaid –
    • Cathalán mac Indrechtaig, co-king (857–871)
    • Lethlobar mac Loingsig, co-king (857–873)
• Kingdom of Italy – Louis II (855–875)
  • Principality of Benevento – Adelchis (854–878)
  • County of Capua – Landulf II (863–879)
  • March of Friuli – Unruoch III (863–874)
  • Duchy of Gaeta – Docibilis I, Hypatus of Gaeta (866–906)
  • Duchy of Naples – Sergius II (870–877)
  • Papal States – Pope Adrian II (867–872)
  • Principality of Salerno – Guaifer (861–880)
  • Duchy of Spoleto –
    1. Lambert I (860–871)
    2. Suppo II (871–876)
  • March of Tuscany – Adalbert I (847–886)
  • Republic of Venice – Orso I Participazio, Doge of Venice (864–881)
• Great Moravia – Svatopluk I (870–894)
  • Duchy of Bohemia – Bořivoj I (c. 870–c. 889)
• Novgorod – Rurik, Prince of Novgorod (862–879)
• Scotland
  • Kingdom of the Picts – Causantín mac Cináeda (862–877)
• Principality of Serbia – Mutimir, Grand Župan (850–891)
• Spain –
  • County of Aragon – Aznar Galíndez II (867–893)
  • Kingdom of Asturias – Alfonso III (866–910)
    • County of Castile – Rodrigo (860–873)
    • County of Portugal – Vímara Peres (868–873)
  • Emirate of Córdoba – Muhammad I (852–886)
  • Kingdom of Pamplona – García Íñiguez (851/852–882)
• Wales –
  • Kingdom of Gwynedd – Rhodri Mawr (844–878)
  • Kingdom of Powys – Rhodri Mawr (855–878)

Middle East

• Byzantine Empire – Basil I the Macedonian (Βασίλειος Α'), (867–886)
• Abbasid Caliphate – Al-Mu'tamid (870–892)