| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 840s 850s 860s – 870s – 880s 890s 900s |
| Years: | 868 869 870 – 871 – 872 873 874 |
| 871 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 871 DCCCLXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1624 |
| Armenian calendar | 320 ԹՎ ՅԻ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -973 – -972 |
| Bengali calendar | 278 |
| Berber calendar | 1821 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1415 |
| Burmese calendar | 233 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6379 – 6380 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚寅年十二月初七日 (3507/3567-12-7) — to —
辛卯年十一月十六日(3508/3568-11-16) |
| Coptic calendar | 587 – 588 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 863 – 864 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4631 – 4632 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 926 – 927 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 793 – 794 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3972 – 3973 |
| Holocene calendar | 10871 |
| Iranian calendar | 249 – 250 |
| Islamic calendar | 257 – 258 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3204 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1414 |
Events
By place
Europe
- Nine battles are fought between the Danes and Wessex. Of two of them the place and date are not recorded, the others are:
- Alfred the Great succeeds as king of Wessex after Ethelred's death.
- Reading, England is occupied by the Norse.
- After the battle at Wilton, peace is made, with the Danes and Alfred each governing part of England.
- Rhodri Mawr ('the Great') of Gwynedd inherits Seisyllwig, thus uniting most of Wales under his rule.
- Louis II captures Bari, the headquarters of the Saracens.
- Alfred makes Winchester his capital.
- An incomplete marriage contract, dated to October 6 of this year, is the earliest dated document in the Cairo Geniza.
- Tønsberg, the oldest surviving town in the Nordic countries, is founded.
- Svatopluk I becomes king of Great Moravia.
Deaths
- January 8—King Bagsecg, Viking leader (at the Battle of Ashdown)
- April 23—King Ethelred of Wessex (in battle)
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