871

Calendar overview 871

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871
Alfred the Great becomes King of Wessex .	Emperor Ludwig II conquered Bari from the Arabs .
871 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	319/320 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	863/864
Buddhist calendar	1414/15 (southern Buddhism); 1413/14 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	59th (60th) cycle Year of the metal rabbit辛卯 ( at the beginning of the year metal tiger 庚寅)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	233/234 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	249/250 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	257/258 (November 17-18)
Jewish calendar	4631/32 (September 19-20)
Coptic calendar	587/588
Malayalam calendar	46/47
Roman calendar	from urbe condita MDCXXIV (1624) Diocletian's era : 587/588 (New Year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1181/82 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1182/83 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	909
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	927/928 (turn of the year April)

Events

Great Viking Army trains through England from 865

Viking Age : Several battles take place between the Danish Vikings and the Kingdom of Wessex :
- January 4th : Anglo-Saxon King Æthelred of Wessex is defeated by a Danish invading army at the Battle of Reading .

April 23 : After the death of Æthelred at the Battle of Merton , his younger brother Alfred becomes the Great King of Wessex.

Run for 865 in England roving Great Heathen Army boost from Scandinavia through the Great Summer Army .

Spring: Emperor Basil I sends an embassy to Tephrike to negotiate with the rebellious Paulicians under Chrysocheir . When these fail, he undertakes a campaign against them, but is defeated in a field battle and can only with difficulty escape from the battlefield. Encouraged by this success, Chrysocheir dares another raid deep into Anatolia, reaches Ankyra and devastates southern Galatia . Basil then sends a new army against them.

Islam in Italy : Emperor Ludwig II fights the Arabs off Bari and conquers the city.
Foundation of the Hammaburg in the mouth of the Alster , the nucleus of Hamburg
Coimbra is conquered again by the Moors .

During the Zanj uprising against the Abbasids under Caliph al-Mu'tamid , the rebels conquer Basra and completely destroy the “vicious” city. The slave army caused a massacre among the population and forced the survivors into slavery. In the vicinity of the destroyed Basra, the insurgents set up their own capital, which has a military command, administration and courts.

Initial page IN PRINCIPIO

871/ 873 : The so-called Second Bible of Charles the Bald , a Carolingian manuscript , created in the monastery of Saint-Amand . The book decoration of the Bible is a major work of the so-called Franco-Saxon school, strongly influenced by the insular book illumination , which developed in the 9th century in what is now northern France and is very different from the courtly Carolingian book illumination.

The Bohemian princess Svatožizňa from the Přemyslid dynasty marries the Moravian prince Svatopluk .

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