875

This article is about the year 875. For the number, see 875 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	840s  850s  860s  – 870s –  880s  890s  900s
Years:	872 873 874 – 875 – 876 877 878

875 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

875 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	875 DCCCLXXV
Ab urbe condita	1628
Armenian calendar	324 ԹՎ ՅԻԴ
Assyrian calendar	5625
Bengali calendar	282
Berber calendar	1825
Buddhist calendar	1419
Burmese calendar	237
Byzantine calendar	6383–6384
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3571 or 3511     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3572 or 3512
Coptic calendar	591–592
Discordian calendar	2041
Ethiopian calendar	867–868
Hebrew calendar	4635–4636
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	931–932
- Shaka Samvat	797–798
- Kali Yuga	3976–3977
Holocene calendar	10875
Iranian calendar	253–254
Islamic calendar	261–262
Japanese calendar	Jōgan 17 (貞観１７年)
Julian calendar	875 DCCCLXXV
Korean calendar	3208
Minguo calendar	1037 before ROC 民前1037年
Seleucid era	1186/1187 AG
Thai solar calendar	1417–1418

Year 875 (DCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• December 29 – Charles the Bald, king of West Francia, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Charles II.
• Battle of Dollar fought at Dollar in the Kingdom of Scotland: Danes invading under Thorstem defeat the men of Alba under King Constantine, going on to occupy Caithness, Sutherland, Ross and Moray, far to the north.
• Danes capture Lindisfarne and arrive in Cambridge.
• Harald Fairhair subdues the rovers on Orkney and Shetland and adds them to his kingdom.
• Vikings, probably led by Halfdan Ragnarsson, invade Dublin and Eystein Olafsson, King of Dublin, is killed.
• Donyarth, last recorded King of Cornwall, drowns in what is thought to be the River Fowey.

Asia

• In Champa, in the central region of modern-day Vietnam, King Indravarman II founds a new dynasty at Indrapura (Quảng Nam) and initiates a building program featuring the Dong Duong Style of Cham art.
• The dynasty of the Samanids established a court in Bukhara, a major city on the Silk Road.

Africa

• The construction of Mosque of Uqba, Kairouan, Tunisia, is ended.

Births

• Fujiwara no Nakahira, Japanese statesman (d. 945)

Deaths

• May – Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, Persian muhaddith (b. c.817/22)
• August 12 – Louis II of Italy, imperator Romanorum (b. 825)
• October 28 – Remigius of Lyon, archbishop
• November 11 – Teutberga, queen consort of Lotharingia
• 'Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Yazdad al-Marwazi, Persian official of the Abbasid Caliphate
• Ado, Archbishop of Vienne, Lotharingia
• Donyarth, King of Cornwall
• Eystein Olafsson, Norse–Gael King of Dublin
• Amram Gaon, Jewish liturgist
• Martianus Hiberniensis, Irish-born teacher and calligrapher