Centuries:	8th century - 9th century - 10th century
Decades:	840s  850s  860s  - 870s -  880s  890s  900s
Years:	870 871 872 - 873 - 874 875 876

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Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

873 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	873 DCCCLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1626
Armenian calendar	322 ԹՎ ՅԻԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-971 – -970
Berber calendar	1823
Buddhist calendar	1417
Burmese calendar	235
Byzantine calendar	6381 – 6382
Chinese calendar	壬辰年十一月廿九日 (3509/3569-11-29) — to — 癸巳年十二月初八日 (3510/3570-12-8)
Coptic calendar	589 – 590
Ethiopian calendar	865 – 866
Hebrew calendar	4633 – 4634
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	928 – 929
- Shaka Samvat	795 – 796
- Kali Yuga	3974 – 3975
Holocene calendar	10873
Iranian calendar	251 – 252
Islamic calendar	259 – 260
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3206
Thai solar calendar	1416
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Events

By Place

Europe

• The Vikings raid Dorestad.

Asia

• A widespread failure of the agricultural harvest in Tang Dynasty China leads to a widespread famine; in the previous century the central government was able to curb famine with large grain stores, but this time the central government is already in decline and too weak to properly face the disaster.

Births

• Liu Yin

Deaths

• abu al-Kindi, Arab scientist
• Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Arabian physician