873

Year 873 (DCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century 9th century 10th century
Decades:	850s 860s 870s 880s 890s
Years:	870 871 872 873 874 875 876

873 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	873 DCCCLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1626
Armenian calendar	322 ԹՎ ՅԻԲ
Assyrian calendar	5623
Balinese saka calendar	794–795
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
Tibetan calendar	阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 999 or 618 or −154     — to — 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1000 or 619 or −153

Events

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: The city of Toledo (modern Spain) rises up for a second time against Umayyad rule, due to ethnic tensions over 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 an encampment with a U-shape ditch, on the south bank of the River Trent and spend the winter there.[2]

Fall of the Tahirid Dynasty (eastern Persia)

Persian 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. The Tahirid Dynasty falls.

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

• July 8 – Gunther, archbishop of Cologne
• August 1 – Thachulf, duke of Thuringia
• August 15 – Yi Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 833)
• Al-Kindi, Muslim philosopher and polymath
• Du Cong, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 794)
• Ecgberht I, king of Northumbria
• 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)
• Vímara Peres, Asturian nobleman
• Wei Baoheng, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty

References

1. McKitterick 1983, pp. 186–87.
2. Hill 2009, p. 57.

Sources

• Hill, Paul (2009). The Viking wars of Alfred the Great. Westholme. ISBN 9781594160875.
• McKitterick, Rosamond (1983). The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Carolingians, 751-987 (Illustrated ed.). Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-49005-5.