872
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 8th century · 9th century · 10th century |
| Decades: | 840s · 850s · 860s · 870s · 880s · 890s · 900s |
| Years: | 869 · 870 · 871 · 872 · 873 · 874 · 875 |
| 872 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 872 DCCCLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1625 |
| Armenian calendar | 321 ԹՎ ՅԻԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5622 |
| Bengali calendar | 279 |
| Berber calendar | 1822 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1416 |
| Burmese calendar | 234 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6380–6381 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3568 or 3508 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3569 or 3509 |
| Coptic calendar | 588–589 |
| Discordian calendar | 2038 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 864–865 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4632–4633 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 928–929 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 793–794 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3972–3973 |
| Holocene calendar | 10872 |
| Iranian calendar | 250–251 |
| Islamic calendar | 258–259 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōgan 14 (貞観１４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 770–771 |
| Julian calendar | 872 DCCCLXXII |
| Korean calendar | 3205 |
| Minguo calendar | 1040 before ROC 民前1040年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −596 |
| Seleucid era | 1183/1184 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1414–1415 |
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Pope John VIII (872–882)
Year 872 (DCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Battle of Bathys Ryax: Emperor Basil I ("the Macedonian") sends an Byzantine expeditionary force led by Christopher (Basil's brother-in-law) to Anatolia. He defeats the Paulicians and eliminates the sect as a military power. Their leader, Chrysocheir, is captured and (later) beheaded. Many Paulicians are forcibly located on orders of Basil in Thrace to serve as a frontier force against the Bulgarians.[1]
Europe
- Battle of Hafrsfjord: The Norse chieftain Harald Fairhair wins a great naval victory at Hafrsfjord outside Stavanger. He becomes (at age 18) the first king of Norway. Harald's conquests and taxation system leads many Viking chiefs and their followers to emigrate to the British Isles and (later) to Iceland.
- Sancho III Mitarra (or Menditarra) becomes the founder and first 'king' of the independent Duchy of Gascony, with loose ties to the Frankish Kingdom.[2]
- May 18 – Louis II, after his successful campagne against the Saracens, is crowned for the second time as Roman Emperor ("Emperor of the Franks").
- Al-Andalus: Uprising of the city of Toledo against Umayyad rule due to ethnic tensions between recent converts, the muwalladun, and the Arab elite.[3]
Britain
- Autumn – The Great Heathen Army returns to Northumbria to put down a rebellion at York. King Ecgberht I and his archbishop, Wulfhere, are expelled by the Northumbrians and flee to Mercia.[4]
- The Danes led by Halfdan and Guthrum establish a winter quarter at Torksey in the Kingdom of Lindsey (now part of Lincolnshire). King Burgred pays tribute (Danegeld) in return for 'peace'.[5]
- King Artgal of Strathclyde is slain through the connivance of king Constantine I of Alba (modern Scotland) and his Viking allies. Artgal's son, Run, succeeds to the Strathclyde throne.
Arabian Empire
- The Zanj Rebellion: The Zanj (black slaves from East Africa) defeat the Abbasid forces led by caliphal regent Al-Muwaffaq (brother of caliph Al-Mu'tamid). Hostilities in Mesopotamia (Southern Iraq) will preoccupy Al-Muwaffaq, the Zanj remain on the offensive over the next several years.[6]
- In Egypt, the first hospital (bimaristan) is build in Cairo by the Abbasid governor, Ahmad ibn Tulun. Physician licensure becomes mandatory in the Abbasid Caliphate.[7]
Japan
- Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, Japanese regent (sesshō), dies at his native Kyoto, having ruled since 858. He is succeeded as head of the Fujiwara clan by his son Fujiwara no Mototsune.
By topic
Religion
- December 14 – Pope Adrian II dies (at age 80) after a 5-year reign. He is succeeded by John VIII as the 107th pope of Rome.
Births
- Abaoji, ruler (khagan) of the Khitan Empire (d. 926)
- Al-Farabi, Muslim philosopher (approximate date)
- Huo Yanwei, Chinese general (d. 928)
- Ki no Tsurayuki, Japanese writer and poet (d. 945)
- Pietro II Candiano, doge of Venice (approximate date)
Deaths
- December 14 – Adrian II, pope of Rome (b. 792)
- Artgal, king of Strathclyde (Scotland)
- Athanasius I, bishop of Naples (b. 830)
- Cenn Fáelad hua Mugthigirn, king of Munster (Ireland)
- Chrysocheir, leader of the Paulicians (or 878)
- Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, Japanese regent (b. 804)
- Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub al-Juzajani, Muslim hadith scholar
- Ivar the Boneless, Viking chief (approximate date)
- April 2 – Muflih al-Turki, Abbasid general
- Sargis, patriarch of the Church of the East
- Zhang Yichao, general of the Tang Dynasty
- Zhang Yunshen, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 785)
References
- ↑ Jenkins 1987, p. 191.
- ↑ Collins, R. (1990).
- ↑ Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique. Paris: Seuil. p. 85. ISBN 2-02-012935-3.
- ↑ Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, p. 55. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5.
- ↑ Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, p. 56. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5.
- ↑ Waines 1992, pp. 38 ff., 108 ff., 120 ff., 136, 137 ff., 152 ff., 156, 158, 164 ff.; Popovic 1999, pp. 45–72; Mckinney 2004, pp. 464–66; Nöldeke 1892, pp. 152–62.
- ↑ "Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts _ Hospitals". Retrieved 8 November 2011.
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