874

This article is about the year 874. For the number (and other uses), see 874 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	840s  850s  860s  – 870s –  880s  890s  900s
Years:	871 872 873 – 874 – 875 876 877

874 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

874 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	874 DCCCLXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1627
Armenian calendar	323 ԹՎ ՅԻԳ
Assyrian calendar	5624
Bahá'í calendar	-970–-969
Bengali calendar	281
Berber calendar	1824
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1418
Burmese calendar	236
Byzantine calendar	6382–6383
Chinese calendar	癸巳年十二月初九日 (3510/3570-12-9) — to — 甲午年十一月十九日 (3511/3571-11-19)
Coptic calendar	590–591
Ethiopian calendar	866–867
Hebrew calendar	4634–4635
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	930–931
- Shaka Samvat	796–797
- Kali Yuga	3975–3976
Holocene calendar	10874
Iranian calendar	252–253
Islamic calendar	260–261
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3207
Minguo calendar	1038 before ROC 民前1038年
Thai solar calendar	1417

Year 874 (DCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Ingólfur Arnarson arrives as the first permanent Viking settler in Iceland, settling in Reykjavík (probable date).
• The Danes invade Mercia.
• The territory of the Vistulans is conquered by King Svatopluk I of Great Moravia.
• November – Frost begins in Scotland and lasts until April 875.

Asia

• The rebellion of Huang Chao in China begins, weakening the strength of the already declining Tang Dynasty.

By topic

Religion

• March 13 – The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Apostles, Constantinople.

Births

• Meng Zhixiang

Deaths

• January 1 – Hasan al-Askari, 11th Shia Imam