875

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

Events[edit]

By place[edit]

Europe[edit]

• August 12 – Emperor Louis II dies in Brescia, after having named his cousin Carloman, son of King Louis the German, as his successor. Louis is buried in the Basilica of Sant'AmbrogioinMilan.
• December 29 – King Charles the Bald, supported by Pope John VIII, travels to Italy. He receives the Imperial RegaliaatPavia, and is crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Charles II at Rome.
• Louis the Stammerer, son of Charles the Bald, marries for the second time Adelaide of Paris, after divorcing Ansgarde of Burgundy, with whom he is secretly married.
• King Harald FairhairofNorway subdues the rovers on the Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands, and adds them to his kingdom (approximate date).

Britain[edit]

• June – The Great Heathen Army, led by Guthrum, moves on Cambridge. He later returns to Wessex, to establish a winter quarter. King Alfred the Great fights the Danes in a naval engagement.
• Battle of Dollar: Invading Danish Vikings defeat the Scots and the Picts, under King Constantine I, at Dollar. They occupy Caithness, Sutherland, Ross and Moray, far to the north.^[1]
• Danish Vikings, probably led by Halfdan Ragnarsson, invade Dublin. During the fighting, Eystein Olafsson, king of Dublin, is killed.^[2]
• Donyarth, the last recorded king of Cornwall, drowns in what is thought to be the River Fowey.^[3]

Arabian Empire[edit]

• Fall – An Arab fleet from Taranto sails up the Adriatic Sea and sacks Comacchio, putting it to flames. They attack Grado (bishopric of the Venetian Republic), but are repelled by the Venetians.
• Muhammad II, emir of the Aghlabids, dies and is succeeded by his brother Ibrahim II. Towards the end of his reign, a caravanofpilgrims from Mecca introduces the plagueinIfriqiya (Tunisia).
• The Samanid Dynasty establishes a court at Bukhara (modern Uzbekistan), which becomes a rival city to Baghdad on the strategic Silk Road.

Asia[edit]

• King Jayavarman III founds a new dynasty at Indrapura (Quảng Nam) in Champa, in the central region of modern-day Vietnam. He initiates a building program in the Dong Duong Style.

By topic[edit]

Religion[edit]

• The construction of the Great Mosque of Kairouan is completed by Ibrahim II. He builds another three bays, reducing the size of the courtyard.^[4]
• Bretons begin to flee the land, seeking the relative security of Britain. Vikings loot the Abbey of Saint-MelaineatRennes (approximate date).

Births[edit]

• March 22 – William I, duke of Aquitaine (d. 918)
• Adalbert II, Frankish margrave (approximate date)
• Ermentrude, Frankish princess, daughter of Louis the Stammerer (or878)
• Fruela II, king of Asturias and León (approximate date)
• Fujiwara no Nakahira, Japanese statesman (d. 945)
• Gerhard I, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
• Lady Ise, Japanese poet (approximate date)
• Mary the Younger, Byzantine saint (d. 902)
• Sale Ngahkwe, king of Burma (approximate date)
• Spytihněv I, duke of Bohemia (approximate date)
• Sueiro Belfaguer, Portuguese nobleman (d. 925)

Deaths[edit]

• August 12 – Louis II, king of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 825)
• October 28 – Remigius of Lyon, Frankish archbishop
• November 11 – Teutberga, queen of Lotharingia
• 'Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Yazdad al-Marwazi, Persian official
• Amram Gaon, Jewish liturgist (approximate date)
• Donyarth, king of Cornwall (approximate date)
• Gyeongmun, king of Silla (Korea) (b. 841)
• Eystein Olafsson, Norse–Gael king of Dublin
• Martianus Hiberniensis, Irish monk and calligrapher (b. 819)
• Muhammad II, emir of the Aghlabids
• Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, Persian scholar
• Xiao Fang, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 796)

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