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This article is about the year 873.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 840s 850s 860s – 870s – 880s 890s 900s |
| Years: | 870 871 872 – 873 – 874 875 876 |
| 873 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 873 DCCCLXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1626 |
| Armenian calendar | 322 ԹՎ ՅԻԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5623 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -971–-970 |
| Bengali calendar | 280 |
| Berber calendar | 1823 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1417 |
| Burmese calendar | 235 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6381–6382 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬辰年十一月廿九日 (3509/3569-11-29) — to —
癸巳年十二月初八日(3510/3570-12-8) |
| Coptic calendar | 589–590 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 865–866 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4633–4634 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 929–930 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 795–796 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3974–3975 |
| Holocene calendar | 10873 |
| Iranian calendar | 251–252 |
| Islamic calendar | 259–260 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3206 |
| Minguo calendar | 1039 before ROC 民前1039年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1416 |
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Year 873 (DCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- The Vikings raid Dorestad.
- Al-Andalus: Second uprising of Toledo due to ethnic tensions in two years.
[edit] Asia
- A widespread failure of the agricultural harvest in Tang Dynasty China leads to a widespread famine; in the previous century the central government was able to curb famine with large grain stores, but this time the central government is already in decline and too weak to properly face the disaster.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- abu al-Kindi, Arab scientist
- Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Arabian physician
