Centuries:	8th century - 9th century - 10th century
Decades:	840s  850s  860s  - 870s -  880s  890s  900s
Years:	876 877 878 - 879 - 880 881 882

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Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

879 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	879 DCCCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1632
Armenian calendar	328 ԹՎ ՅԻԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-965 – -964
Berber calendar	1829
Buddhist calendar	1423
Burmese calendar	241
Byzantine calendar	6387 – 6388
Chinese calendar	戊戌年十二月初五日 (3515/3575-12-5) — to — 己亥年十一月十五日 (3516/3576-11-15)
Coptic calendar	595 – 596
Ethiopian calendar	871 – 872
Hebrew calendar	4639 – 4640
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	934 – 935
- Shaka Samvat	801 – 802
- Kali Yuga	3980 – 3981
Holocene calendar	10879
Iranian calendar	257 – 258
Islamic calendar	265 – 266
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3212
Thai solar calendar	1422
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Events

By Place

Europe

• Pope John VIII recognizes the Dukedom of Croatia as an independent state.

Asia

• The Chinese rebel Huang Chao besieges the southern Chinese seaport at Guangzhou and slaughters much of its inhabitants of native Chinese and foreigners from around the world. His rebellion is suppressed by 884. However, the damage he inflicts upon the authority and legitimacy of the Tang Dynasty is one of the final blows to the dynasty, the throne of which is usurped in 907.

By Topic

Religion

• A synod convened at Constantinople (the so-called Photian Council) reinstates Patriarch Photius I of Constantinople.
• Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona, founds the Benedictine monastery at Ripoll.

Births

• Olga of Kiev
• Empress Dowager Yingtian

Deaths

• April 10 — Louis the Stammerer, King of the West Franks
• Rurik, ruler of Novgorod
• Aed Finliath, High King of Ireland