873
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century · 9th century · 10th century |
| Decades: | 840s · 850s · 860s · 870s · 880s · 890s · 900s |
| Years: | 870 · 871 · 872 · 873 · 874 · 875 · 876 |
| 873 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 873 DCCCLXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1626 |
| Armenian calendar | 322 ԹՎ ՅԻԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5623 |
| Bengali calendar | 280 |
| Berber calendar | 1823 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1417 |
| Burmese calendar | 235 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6381–6382 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3569 or 3509 — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3570 or 3510 |
| Coptic calendar | 589–590 |
| Discordian calendar | 2039 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 865–866 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4633–4634 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 929–930 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 794–795 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3973–3974 |
| Holocene calendar | 10873 |
| Iranian calendar | 251–252 |
| Islamic calendar | 259–260 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōgan 15 (貞観１５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 771–772 |
| Julian calendar | 873 DCCCLXXIII |
| Korean calendar | 3206 |
| Minguo calendar | 1039 before ROC 民前1039年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −595 |
| Seleucid era | 1184/1185 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1415–1416 |
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Fall of the Tahirid Dynasty (eastern Persia)
Year 873 (DCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Carloman, son of king Charles the Bald, is hailed before a secular court and condemned to death – for plotting against his father. He is blinded, but avoids imprisonment by escaping to the East Frankish Kingdom, where his uncle, Louis the German gives him protection.[1]
- Al-Andalus: Second uprising of the city of Toledo (modern Spain) against Umayyad rule due to ethnic tensions in two years.
Britain
- The Danish Great Heathen Army led by the Viking leaders Halfdan and Guthrum attack Mercia and capture the royal centre at Repton (Derbyshire). The Vikings establish a encampment with a U-shape ditch on the south bank of the River Trent and spend the winter there.[2]
Arabian Empire
- Muhammad ibn Tahir, Muslim governor of Khorasan, is overthrown by the Saffarids led by Ya'qub ibn al-Layth who conquer the capital, Nishapur. Khorasan is annexed to their own empire in eastern Persia. Fall of the Tahirid Dynasty.
China
- August 15 – Emperor Yi Zong (Li Cuī) dies after a 13-year reign. He is succeeded by his 11-year-old son Xi Zong as ruler of the Tang Dynasty. During his reign, a widespread failure of the agricultural harvest leads to famine (which causes people to resort to cannibalism) and agrarian rebellions.
Births
- Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah, Muslim caliph (d. 934)
- Abu Yazid, Kharijite Berber leader (d. 947)
- Ahmad al-Muhajir, Muslim imam (d. 956)
- Al-Tabarani, Muslim hadith scholar (d. 970)
- Fujiwara no Sadakata, Japanese poet (d. 932)
- Ordoño II, king of Galicia and León (d. 924)
Deaths
- Al-Kindi, Muslim philosopher and polymath
- Du Cong, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 794)
- Ecgberht I, king of Northumbria
- July 8 – Gunther, archbishop of Cologne
- Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Muslim scholar and physician (b. 809)
- Ivar the Boneless, Viking leader (approximate date)
- John III, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch
- Kang Chengxun, general of the Tang Dynasty
- Lethlobar mac Loingsig, king of Ulaid (Ireland)
- Malik ibn Tawk, Muslim governor
- Muhammad ibn Ali al-Armani, Muslim general
- Rodrigo, Asturian nobleman
- Rodulf Haraldsson, Viking leader
- Shinshō, Japanese Buddhist monk (b. 797)
- August 1 – Thachulf, duke of Thuringia
- Vímara Peres, Asturian nobleman
- Wei Baoheng, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
- August 15 – Yi Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 833)
References
- ↑ McKitterick 1983, pp. 186–87.
- ↑ Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, p. 57. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5.
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