875

This article is about the year 875.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	840s  850s  860s  – 870s –  880s  890s  900s
Years:	872 873 874 – 875 – 876 877 878

875 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

875 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	875 DCCCLXXV
Ab urbe condita	1628
Armenian calendar	324 ԹՎ ՅԻԴ
Assyrian calendar	5625
Bahá'í calendar	-969–-968
Bengali calendar	282
Berber calendar	1825
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1419
Burmese calendar	237
Byzantine calendar	6383–6384
Chinese calendar	甲午年十一月二十日 (3511/3571-11-20) — to — 乙未年十一月三十日 (3512/3572-11-30)
Coptic calendar	591–592
Ethiopian calendar	867–868
Hebrew calendar	4635–4636
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	931–932
- Shaka Samvat	797–798
- Kali Yuga	3976–3977
Holocene calendar	10875
Iranian calendar	253–254
Islamic calendar	261–262
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3208
Minguo calendar	1037 before ROC 民前1037年
Thai solar calendar	1418

Year 875 (DCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• December 29 – Charles the Bald, king of West Francia, is crowned emperor.
• The Danes capture Lindisfarne and arrive in Cambridge.
• Harald Fairhair subdues the rovers on Orkney and Shetland and adds them to his kingdom.

Asia

• In Champa, in the central region of what is now Vietnam, King Indravarman II founds a new dynasty at Indrapura (Quang Nam) and initiates a building program featuring the Dong Duong Style of Cham art.

Africa

• The construction of Mosque of Uqba, Kairouan, Tunisia, is ended.

Births

• Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Nishapuri Islamic author

Deaths

• August 12 – Louis II, Western Emperor
• Amram Gaon, Jewish liturgist
• Abu Muslim, Persian hadith compiler