873

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873 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

873 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	873 DCCCLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1626
Armenian calendar	322 ԹՎ ՅԻԲ
Assyrian calendar	5623
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

Fall of the Tahirid Dynasty (eastern Persia)

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

Events

By place

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: Second uprising of the city of Toledo (modern Spain) against Umayyad rule due to ethnic tensions in 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 a encampment with a U-shape ditch on the south bank of the River Trent and spend the winter there.^[2]

Arabian 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. Fall of the Tahirid Dynasty.

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

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

References

1. McKitterick 1983, pp. 186–87.
2. Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, p. 57. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5.