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Calendar overview 878
Map with all linked sites: | 878 | |
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 defeat the Danish Vikings in the battle of cynwit . |
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| 878 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 326/327 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 870/871 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1421/22 (southern Buddhism); 1420/21 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 59th (60th) cycle
Year of the earth dog戊戌 ( at the beginning of the year fire rooster 丁酉) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 240/241 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 256/257 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 264/265 (September 2/3) |
| Jewish calendar | 4638/39 (August 31 / September 1) |
| Coptic calendar | 594/595 |
| Malayalam calendar | 53/54 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MDCXXXI (1631)
Diocletian's era : 594/595 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1188/89 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1189/90 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 916 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 934/935 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
British Islands
- Viking Age : The Kingdom of Wessex under King Alfred the Great conquered London from the Danes .
- Alfred the Great defeats the Great Pagan Army of the Vikings under Guthrum near Edington . Guthrum was subsequently baptized and withdrew to East Anglia .
- In the battle of Cynuit between the Danes and the English, the English can achieve victory. The - historically unrelated - leader of the Danes, Ubba Ragnarsson , allegedly one of many sons of the legendary Norse Viking leader Ragnar Lodbrok , dies in battle.
- Eochaid and his uncle Giric overthrow Aedh and rule Scotland together .
Southern and Western Europe
The conquest of Syracuse , from the Madrid illuminated manuscript of the Skylitzes
- May 21 : Islam in Italy : The Aghlabids under General Jafar ibn Muhammad al-Tamini conquer Syracuse from the Byzantines after a nine-month siege . The victorious Saracens tried to conquer the city fifty years earlier after landing in Sicily , but failed.
- September 7th : Ludwig II is again crowned King of Western France by Pope John VIII in Troyes .
First documentary mentions
- Hemberg is first mentioned in a document.
religion
Born
- Tannet , King of Bagan († 934 )
- around 878: Odo von Cluny , second abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny († 942 )
Died
- November 15 : Fintan of Rheinau , Irish hermit and saint (* 803 / 804 )
- Aedh , King of Scotland (* 840 )
- Hartmann , Bishop of Lausanne
- Rhodri the Great , Welsh King (* around 820 )
- Thankmar , Abbot of Corvey
- Ubba Ragnarsson , Viking