881

Year 881 (DCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
881 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar881
DCCCLXXXI
Ab urbe condita1634
Armenian calendar330
ԹՎ ՅԼ
Assyrian calendar5631
Balinese saka calendar802–803
Bengali calendar288
Berber calendar1831
Buddhist calendar1425
Burmese calendar243
Byzantine calendar6389–6390
Chinese calendar庚子年 (Metal Rat)
3577 or 3517
     to 
辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
3578 or 3518
Coptic calendar597–598
Discordian calendar2047
Ethiopian calendar873–874
Hebrew calendar4641–4642
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat937–938
 - Shaka Samvat802–803
 - Kali Yuga3981–3982
Holocene calendar10881
Iranian calendar259–260
Islamic calendar267–268
Japanese calendarGangyō 5
(元慶5年)
Javanese calendar779–780
Julian calendar881
DCCCLXXXI
Korean calendar3214
Minguo calendar1031 before ROC
民前1031年
Nanakshahi calendar−587
Seleucid era1192/1193 AG
Thai solar calendar1423–1424
Tibetan calendar阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
1007 or 626 or −146
     to 
阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
1008 or 627 or −145

Events

Europe

Britain

  • Battle of the Conwy: King Anarawd of Gwynedd (Wales) initiates a revenge attack on the Mercian armies, and defeats them on the River Conwy.
  • Anarawd, and his brothers Cadell and Merfyn, begin extensive military campaigns to quell resistance in Powys and Seisyllwg (approximate date).

Arabian Empire

  • Zanj Rebellion: Abbasid general Al-Muwaffaq lays siege to the Zanj capital of Mukhtara, using his base on the opposite side of the River Tigris.

Asia

Religion

  • St. Cecilia's Church (Cäcilienkirche) is founded as a college for women. It is now home of the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne.

Births

Deaths

  • December 7 Anspert, archbishop of Milan
  • Bárid mac Ímair, king of Dublin
  • Cui Hang, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
  • David I, prince of Iberia (Georgia)
  • Gabriel, prince of Kakheti (Georgia)
  • Guaifer, duke of Benevento
  • John I, Frankish abbot (approximate date)
  • Liu Ye, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
  • Lu Guimeng, Chinese poet
  • Odo I, bishop of Beauvais
  • Orso I, doge of Venice
  • Radi Abdullah, Muslim tenth Imam
  • Zhang Zhifang, Chinese general

References

  1. Antonopoulos, 1980

Sources

  • Antonopoulos, J. (1980), Data from investigation of seismic Sea waves events in the Eastern Mediterranean from 500 to 1000 A.D., Annals of Geophysics
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