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:	8th century 9th century 10th century
Decades:	850s 860s 870s 880s 890s
Years:	873 874 875 876 877 878 879

876 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	876 DCCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1629
Armenian calendar	325 ԹՎ ՅԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	5626
Balinese saka calendar	797–798
Bengali calendar	283
Berber calendar	1826
Buddhist calendar	1420
Burmese calendar	238
Byzantine calendar	6384–6385
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3572 or 3512     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3573 or 3513
Coptic calendar	592–593
Discordian calendar	2042
Ethiopian calendar	868–869
Hebrew calendar	4636–4637
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	932–933
- Shaka Samvat	797–798
- Kali Yuga	3976–3977
Holocene calendar	10876
Iranian calendar	254–255
Islamic calendar	262–263
Japanese calendar	Jōgan 18 (貞観１８年)
Javanese calendar	774–775
Julian calendar	876 DCCCLXXVI
Korean calendar	3209
Minguo calendar	1036 before ROC 民前1036年
Nanakshahi calendar	−592
Seleucid era	1187/1188 AG
Thai solar calendar	1418–1419
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

• August 28 – King Louis the German dies at Frankfurt, while preparing for war against his brother Charles II ("the Bald"), ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. The East Frankish Kingdom is divided among his three sons: Carloman receives Bavaria and styles himself "King of Bavaria". Louis the Younger receives Saxony (with Franconia and Thuringia), and Charles the Fat receives Swabia (with Raetia).
• October 8 – Battle of Andernach: Frankish forces, led by Louis the Younger, prevent a West Frankish invasion and defeat Charles II at Andernach. The Rhineland remains part of the East Frankish Kingdom.

Britain

• The Great Summer 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

• January 31 – Hemma of Altdorf, Frankish queen
• August 28 – Louis the German, king of the East Frankish Kingdom
• Bagrat I, prince of Iberia (Georgia)
• Bodo, Frankish deacon
• Conrad I, Frankish nobleman
• Conrad II, Frankish nobleman
• Domagoj, duke (knyaz) of Croatia
• Donatus of Fiesole, Irish bishop
• Gurvand, duke ('king') of Brittany
• Heiric of Auxerre, Frankish theologian and writer (b. 841)
• Hessel Hermana, Frisian governor (approximate date)
• Pascweten, duke ('king') of Brittany
• Pyinbya, king of Burma (b. 817)
• Raganar, Frankish nobleman
• Wulfad, Frankish archbishop

References

1. Kreutz 2011, pp. 41–43.
2. Kazhdan 1991, pp. 256, 1250.
3. Hill 2009, p. 66.

Sources

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