876

Year 876 (DCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
876 by topic
Leaders
  • Political entities
  • State leaders
  • Religious leaders
Categories
  • Births
  • Deaths
  • Establishments
876 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar876
DCCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita1629
Armenian calendar325
ԹՎ ՅԻԵ
Assyrian calendar5626
Balinese saka calendar797–798
Bengali calendar283
Berber calendar1826
Buddhist calendar1420
Burmese calendar238
Byzantine calendar6384–6385
Chinese calendar乙未年 (Wood Goat)
3572 or 3512
    — to —
丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
3573 or 3513
Coptic calendar592–593
Discordian calendar2042
Ethiopian calendar868–869
Hebrew calendar4636–4637
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat932–933
 - Shaka Samvat797–798
 - Kali Yuga3976–3977
Holocene calendar10876
Iranian calendar254–255
Islamic calendar262–263
Japanese calendarJōgan 18
(貞観１８年)
Javanese calendar774–775
Julian calendar876
DCCCLXXVI
Korean calendar3209
Minguo calendar1036 before ROC
民前1036年
Nanakshahi calendar−592
Seleucid era1187/1188 AG
Thai solar calendar1418–1419
Tibetan calendar阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
1002 or 621 or −151
    — to —
阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
1003 or 622 or −150

Events

Byzantine Empire
  • At the invitation of Benevento, the newly-restored Byzantine fleet appears in the waters off Otranto. On the orders of Emperor Basil I, the Byzantines sail up the Adriatic Sea and reconquer part of southern Italy. The city of Bari is occupied in the name of the Byzantine Empire. Instead of holding it for his 'ally' Adelchis of Benevento, Basil makes it the capital of the new Byzantine Theme of Longobardia.[1][2]

Europe

Britain
  • The Great Heathen Army, led by Guthrum, captures the fortress of Wareham (Dorset), and is met by a Viking army (3,500 men) from the sea, which lands at Poole Harbour. King Alfred the Great traps the Vikings, and demands hostages in return for a peace agreement. The Danes divide their forces; half flees to Exeter, where they besiege the town while the other half escape in their ships, but are lost in a storm near Swanage.[3]
  • Viking leader Halfdan Ragnarsson formally establishes the Danish kingdom of York, after the removal of the puppet king Ricsige of Northumbria, and becomes the first monarch.

Arabian Empire
  • April 8 – Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul: Abbasid forces, led by Al-Muwaffaq, halt a Saffarid invasion on the River Tigris. Emir Ya'qub ibn al-Layth tries to capture the Abbasid Caliphate's capital of Baghdad, but he is forced, with his army, to retreat.
Emperor Yōzei (869–949)

Japan
  • Emperor Seiwa abdicates the throne, in favor of his 7-year-old son Yōzei. Seiwa becomes a Buddhist priest; he appoints Fujiwara no Mototsune as regent (sesshō), who assists the child emperor.

Religion
  • June – Synod of Ponthion: Charles II summons a council, in which a papal brief is read from Pope John VIII. He appoints Ansegisus as papal legate and primate over Gaul, in the West Frankish Kingdom.
  • John VIII travels throughout Campania, in an effort to form an alliance among the southern Italian states (the cities of Salerno, Capua, Naples, Gaeta and Amalfi) against Muslim raids.

Births
  • Eutychius, patriarch of Alexandria (d. 940)
  • Henry the Fowler, king of Germany (d. 936)
  • John of Rila, Bulgarian hermit (approximate date)
  • Lu Wenji, Chinese chancellor (d. 951)
  • Toda, queen of Pamplona (d. 958)

Deaths

References
  1. Kreutz, Barbara M. (2011). Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries (Illustrated, reprint ed.). University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 41–43. ISBN 978-0-8122-0543-5.
  2. Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 256, 1250. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
  3. Hill, Paul (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great. Pen & Sword History. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5.
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