Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century - 9th century - 10th century
Decades:	840s  850s  860s  - 870s -  880s  890s  900s
Years:	867 868 869 - 870 - 871 872 873

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Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

870 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	870 DCCCLXX
Ab urbe condita	1622
Armenian calendar	319 ԹՎ ՅԺԹ
Bah�'�� calendar	-974 - -973
Bengali calendar	277
Berber calendar	1820
Buddhist calendar	1414
Burmese calendar	232
Byzantine calendar	6378 - 6379
Chinese calendar	己丑年十一月廿六日 (3506/3566-11-26) - to - 庚寅年十二月初六日 (3507/3567-12-6)
Coptic calendar	586 - 587
Ethiopian calendar	862 - 863
Hebrew calendar	4630 - 4631
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	926 - 927
- Shaka Samvat	792 - 793
- Kali Yuga	3971 - 3972
Holocene calendar	10870
Iranian calendar	248 - 249
Islamic calendar	256 - 257
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3203
Thai solar calendar	1413
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Events

By place

Europe

• Prague Castle is founded.
• The Great Summer Army invades England led by Bagsecg and conquers East Anglia; the buildings destroyed by the Danish invaders include the abbey of Ely and the monastery of Peterborough.
• August 8-Treaty of Meerssen: Charles the Bald and Louis the German divide Lotharingia among themselves.
• December 31-The Danes are defeated by a Saxon army at Englefield, Berkshire. It is the first of a series of battles between Wessex and the Danes.
• Malta is conquered by Arabs from Sicily.
• Borivoj becomes duke of Bohemia.
• Charles the Bald marries Richilde.

By topic

Religion

• Michael II succeeds Michael I as Patriarch of Alexandria.
• The Autonomous Bulgarian Archbishopric is established.
• February 28-The Fourth Council of Constantinople ends.

Births

• Al-Farabi, Persian philosopher and scientist
• Zwentibold, King of Lotharingia

Deaths

• November 20-King Edmund of East Anglia
• al-Bukhari, Persian hadith compiler
• Al-Kindi, philosopher