879
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This article is about the year 879.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 840s 850s 860s – 870s – 880s 890s 900s |
| Years: | 876 877 878 – 879 – 880 881 882 |
| 879 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 879 DCCCLXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1632 |
| Armenian calendar | 328 ԹՎ ՅԻԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5629 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -965–-964 |
| Bengali calendar | 286 |
| Berber calendar | 1829 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1423 |
| Burmese calendar | 241 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6387–6388 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年十二月初五日 (3515/3575-12-5) — to —
己亥年十一月十五日(3516/3576-11-15) |
| Coptic calendar | 595–596 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 871–872 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4639–4640 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 935–936 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 801–802 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3980–3981 |
| Holocene calendar | 10879 |
| Iranian calendar | 257–258 |
| Islamic calendar | 265–266 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3212 |
| Minguo calendar | 1033 before ROC 民前1033年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1422 |
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Year 879 (DCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- Pope John VIII recognizes the Duchy of Croatia as an independent state.
- Louis the Stammerer, king of West Francia dies, and is succeeded by his sons Louis III and Carloman II.
[edit] Asia
- The Chinese rebel Huang Chao besieges the southern Chinese seaport at Guangzhou and slaughters much of its inhabitants of native Chinese and foreigners from around the world. His rebellion is suppressed by 884.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- A synod convened at Constantinople (often considered by Eastern churches as the Fourth Council of Constantinople) reinstates Patriarch Photius I of Constantinople.
- Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona, founds the Benedictine monastery at Ripoll.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- April 10 – Louis the Stammerer, King of the West Franks
- Rurik, ruler of Novgorod
- Aed Finliath, High King of Ireland
- Ya'qub-i Laith Saffari
