876

876 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	876; DCCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1629
Armenian calendar	325; ԹՎ ՅԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	5626
Balinese saka calendar	797–798
Bengali calendar	283
Berber calendar	1826
Buddhist calendar	1420
Burmese calendar	238
Byzantine calendar	6384–6385
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat); 3573 or 3366; — to —; 丙申年 (Fire Monkey); 3574 or 3367
Coptic calendar	592–593
Discordian calendar	2042
Ethiopian calendar	868–869
Hebrew calendar	4636–4637
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	932–933
- Shaka Samvat	797–798
- Kali Yuga	3976–3977
Holocene calendar	10876
Iranian calendar	254–255
Islamic calendar	262–263
Japanese calendar	Jōgan 18; (貞観１８年)
Javanese calendar	774–775
Julian calendar	876; DCCCLXXVI
Korean calendar	3209
Minguo calendar	1036 before ROC; 民前1036年
Nanakshahi calendar	−592
Seleucid era	1187/1188 AG
Thai solar calendar	1418–1419
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年; (female Wood-Goat); 1002 or 621 or −151; — to —; 阳火猴年; (male Fire-Monkey); 1003 or 622 or −150

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century; 9th century ; 10th century;
Decades:	850s; 860s; 870s ; 880s; 890s;
Years:	873; 874; 875; 876 ; 877; 878; 879;

Year 876 (DCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

At invitation of Benevento, the newly-restored Byzantine fleet appears in the waters off Otranto. On orders of emperor Basil I the Byzantines sail up the Adriatic Sea and reconquer a part of southern Italy. The city of Bari is occupied in the name of the Byzantine Empire. Instead of holding it for his 'ally' Adelchis of Benevento, Basil makes it the capital of the new Byzantine Theme of Longobardia.^[1]^[2]

August 28 – King Louis the German dies at Frankfurt while preparing for war against his brother Charles II ("the Bald"), ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. The East Frankish Kingdom is divided among his three sons: Carloman receives Bavaria and styles himself "King of Bavaria". Louis the Younger receives Saxony (with Franconia and Thuringia), and Charles the Fat receives Swabia (with Raetia).
October 8 – Battle of Andernach: Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger prevent a West Frankish invasion and defeat Charles II at Andernach. The Rhineland remains part of the East Frankish Kingdom.

The Great Summer Army led by Guthrum captures the fortress of Wareham (Dorset) and are met by a Viking army (3,500 men) from the sea which lands at Poole Harbour. King Alfred the Great traps the Vikings and demands hostages in return for a peace agreement. The Danes divide their forces, half flees to Exeter where they besiege the town while the other escapes in their ships, but are lost in a storm near Swanage.^[3]
Viking leader Halfdan Ragnarsson formally establishes the Danish kingdom of York after the removal of the puppet king Ricsige of Northumbria and becomes the first monarch.

April 8 – Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul: Abbasid forces led by Al-Muwaffaq halt a Saffarid invasion on the River Tigris. Emir Ya'qub ibn al-Layth tries to capture the Abbasid Caliphate's capital of Baghdad, but he is forced with his army to retreat.

Emperor Seiwa abdicates the throne in favor for his 7-year-old son Yōzei. Seiwa becomes a Buddhist priest, he appoints Fujiwara no Mototsune to regent (sesshō) who assists the child emperor.

June – Synod of Ponthion: Charles II summons a council, in which a papal brief is readed from pope John VIII. He appoints Ansegisus as papal legate and primate over Gaul in the West Frankish Kingdom.
John VIII travels throughout Campania in an effort to form an alliance among the southern Italian states (the cities of Salerno, Capua, Naples, Gaeta and Amalfi) against Muslim raids.

^ Kreutz 1996, pp. 41–43.
^ Kazhdan 1991, pp. 256, 1250.
^ Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, p. 66. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5.