890

This article is about the year 890.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	860s  870s  880s  – 890s –  900s  910s  920s
Years:	887 888 889 – 890 – 891 892 893

890 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

890 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	890 DCCCXC
Ab urbe condita	1643
Armenian calendar	339 ԹՎ ՅԼԹ
Assyrian calendar	5640
Bahá'í calendar	-954–-953
Bengali calendar	297
Berber calendar	1840
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1434
Burmese calendar	252
Byzantine calendar	6398–6399
Chinese calendar	己酉年十二月初七日 (3526/3586-12-7) — to — 庚戌年十一月十六日 (3527/3587-11-16)
Coptic calendar	606–607
Ethiopian calendar	882–883
Hebrew calendar	4650–4651
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	946–947
- Shaka Samvat	812–813
- Kali Yuga	3991–3992
Holocene calendar	10890
Iranian calendar	268–269
Islamic calendar	276–277
Japanese calendar
Julian calendar	890    DCCCXC
Korean calendar	3223
Minguo calendar	1022 before ROC 民前1022年
Thai solar calendar	1433

Year 890 (DCCCXC) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• The sovereignty of Great Moravian king Svatopluk I in Bohemia is confirmed.
• Lusatia becomes a part of Great Moravia.
• The Welsh king Anarawd, King of Gwynedd, makes the first ceremonial visit to an English court (that of Alfred the Great).
• Kirby Muxloe is founded (approximate date).
• Ottar from Hålogaland meets King Alfred the Great, who writes down his story.
• The Maya Indians write the first book in the Americas

Births

• Saint Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop
• Marozia of the Rule of the Harlots (otherwise known as The Pornocracy)
• Olga of Kiev, princess of Russia (approximate date)