875

875 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	875; DCCCLXXV
Ab urbe condita	1628
Armenian calendar	324; ԹՎ ՅԻԴ
Assyrian calendar	5625
Balinese saka calendar	796–797
Bengali calendar	281–282
Berber calendar	1825
Buddhist calendar	1419
Burmese calendar	237
Byzantine calendar	6383–6384
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse); 3572 or 3365; — to —; 乙未年 (Wood Goat); 3573 or 3366
Coptic calendar	591–592
Discordian calendar	2041
Ethiopian calendar	867–868
Hebrew calendar	4635–4636
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	931–932
- Shaka Samvat	796–797
- Kali Yuga	3975–3976
Holocene calendar	10875
Iranian calendar	253–254
Islamic calendar	261–262
Japanese calendar	Jōgan 17; (貞観１７年)
Javanese calendar	773–774
Julian calendar	875; DCCCLXXV
Korean calendar	3208
Minguo calendar	1037 before ROC; 民前1037年
Nanakshahi calendar	−593
Seleucid era	1186/1187 AG
Thai solar calendar	1417–1418
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་; (male Wood-Horse); 1001 or 620 or −152; — to —; ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་; (female Wood-Sheep); 1002 or 621 or −151

Events

August 12 – Emperor Louis II dies in Brescia, after having named his cousin Carloman, son of King Louis the German, as his successor. Louis is buried in the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan.
December 29 – King Charles the Bald, supported by Pope John VIII, travels to Italy. He receives the Imperial Regalia at Pavia, and is crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Charles II at Rome.
Louis the Stammerer, son of Charles the Bald, marries for the second time Adelaide of Paris, after divorcing Ansgarde of Burgundy, with whom he is secretly married.
King Harald Fairhair of Norway subdues the rovers on the Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands, and adds them to his kingdom (approximate date).

June – The Great Heathen Army, led by Guthrum, moves on Cambridge. He later returns to Wessex, to establish a winter quarter. King Alfred the Great fights the Danes in a naval engagement.
Battle of Dollar: Invading Danish Vikings defeat the Scots and the Picts, under King Constantine I, at Dollar. They occupy Caithness, Sutherland, Ross and Moray, far to the north.^[1]
Danish Vikings, probably led by Halfdan Ragnarsson, invade Dublin. During the fighting, Eystein Olafsson, king of Dublin, is killed.^[2]
Donyarth, the last recorded king of Cornwall, drowns in what is thought to be the River Fowey.^[3]

Fall – An Arab fleet from Taranto sails up the Adriatic Sea and sacks Comacchio, putting it to flames. They attack Grado (bishopric of the Venetian Republic), but are repelled by the Venetians.
Muhammad II, emir of the Aghlabids, dies and is succeeded by his brother Ibrahim II. Towards the end of his reign, a caravan of pilgrims from Mecca introduces the plague in Ifriqiya (Tunisia).
The Samanid Dynasty establishes a court at Bukhara (modern Uzbekistan), which becomes a rival city to Baghdad on the strategic Silk Road.

King Jayavarman III founds a new dynasty at Indrapura (Quảng Nam) in Champa, in the central region of modern-day Vietnam. He initiates a building program in the Dong Duong Style.

The construction of the Great Mosque of Kairouan is completed by Ibrahim II. He builds another three bays, reducing the size of the courtyard.^[4]
Bretons begin to flee the land, seeking the relative security of Britain. Vikings loot the Abbey of Saint-Melaine at Rennes (approximate date).

↑ Bruce, George (1981). Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles. Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN 0442223366.
↑ Annals of Ulster.
↑ Annales Cambriae.
↑ Marçais, Georges (1927). L'architecture: Tunisie, Algérie, Maroc, Espagne and Sicile. Vol. I. Paris: Picard. p. 12.

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