874

Year 874 (DCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
874 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar874
DCCCLXXIV
Ab urbe condita1627
Armenian calendar323
ԹՎ ՅԻԳ
Assyrian calendar5624
Balinese saka calendar795–796
Bengali calendar281
Berber calendar1824
Buddhist calendar1418
Burmese calendar236
Byzantine calendar6382–6383
Chinese calendar癸巳年 (Water Snake)
3570 or 3510
     to 
甲午年 (Wood Horse)
3571 or 3511
Coptic calendar590–591
Discordian calendar2040
Ethiopian calendar866–867
Hebrew calendar4634–4635
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat930–931
 - Shaka Samvat795–796
 - Kali Yuga3974–3975
Holocene calendar10874
Iranian calendar252–253
Islamic calendar260–261
Japanese calendarJōgan 16
(貞観16年)
Javanese calendar772–773
Julian calendar874
DCCCLXXIV
Korean calendar3207
Minguo calendar1038 before ROC
民前1038年
Nanakshahi calendar−594
Seleucid era1185/1186 AG
Thai solar calendar1416–1417
Tibetan calendar阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
1000 or 619 or −153
     to 
阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
1001 or 620 or −152
Ingólfr Arnarson arrives in Iceland (1850)

Events

Europe

  • Salomon, duke ('king') of Brittany, is murdered by a faction which includes his son-in-law Pascweten and Gurvand, son-in-law of late ruler Erispoe. After Salomon's death they divide the country, and Pascweten and Gurvand co-rule Brittany.[1]
  • Svatopluk I, ruler (knyaz) of Great Moravia, concludes a peace treaty at Forchheim (Northern Bavaria). He is able to expand his territories outside the Frankish sphere, and subjugates the Vistulans.[2][3]
  • Ingólfr Arnarson arrives from Norway, as the first permanent Viking settler in Iceland. He builds his homestead and founds Reykjavík. The settlement of Iceland begins (approximate date).

Britain

  • The Danish Vikings (from their base at Repton) drive King Burgred of Mercia into exile, and sack Tamworth. They conquer his kingdom and install his political opponent, Ceolwulf II, as sub-king.[4]
  • Autumn – The Great Heathen Army splits into two bands; Halfdan returns with his forces to Northumbria, along with his brother Ubba, where he establishes a new base on the River Tyne.[5]
  • Amlaíb Conung, the first Norse 'king' of Dublin, is killed in Scotland, during a campaign against his rival Constantin I (approximate date).
  • November – Frost begins in Scotland, and lasts until April 875.[6]

China

  • Huang Chao, a salt privateer, joins forces with Wang Xianzhi to raise a rebel army at Changyuan (modern Xinxiang). The uprising further weakens the Tang dynasty, which is already weakened by natural disasters such as severe droughts and floods.

Religion

  • March 13 The remains of Saint Nikephorus I are interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles, in Constantinople.
  • The monastery of Sevanavank, located on the shore of Lake Sevan (Armenia), is founded.

Births

  • May 10 Meng Zhixiang, general of Later Tang (d. 934)
  • Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, Muslim scholar (d. 936)
  • Edward the Elder, king of Wessex (approximate date)
  • Constantine II, king of Scotland (approximate date)
  • Liu Yin, governor (jiedushi) of Southern Han (d. 911)
  • Lothar II, Frankish nobleman (d. 929)
  • Ota, Frankish queen and Holy Roman Empress (approximate date)
  • Wang Shifan, Chinese warlord (d. 908)

Deaths

  • January 4 Hasan al-Askari, 11th Shia Imam (b. 846)
  • August 15 Altfrid, bishop of Hildesheim
  • December 16 Ado, archbishop of Vienne
  • Amlaíb Conung, Viking leader (approximate date)
  • Bayazid Bastami, Persian Sufi (approximate date)
  • Han Yunzhong, general of the Tang dynasty (b. 814)
  • Liu Zhan, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
  • Lu Yan, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 829)
  • Pei Tan, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
  • Salomon, duke ('king') of Brittany
  • Unruoch III, margrave of Friuli
  • Yahya II, Muslim sultan

References

  1. Smith, p. 121.
  2. Bartl 2002, p. 21.
  3. Kirschbaum 2007, p. 121.
  4. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Burgred" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 820.
  5. Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, p. 61. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5.
  6. Stratton, J. M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.
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