873

873 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	873 ; DCCCLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1626
Armenian calendar	322 ; ?? ???
Assyrian calendar	5623
Balinese saka calendar	794?795
Bengali calendar	280
Berber calendar	1823
Buddhist calendar	1417
Burmese calendar	235
Byzantine calendar	6381?6382
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon ) ; 3570 or 3363 ; ? to ? ; 癸巳年 (Water Snake ) ; 3571 or 3364
Coptic calendar	589?590
Discordian calendar	2039
Ethiopian calendar	865?866
Hebrew calendar	4633?4634
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	929?930
- Shaka Samvat	794?795
- Kali Yuga	3973?3974
Holocene calendar	10873
Iranian calendar	251?252
Islamic calendar	259?260
Japanese calendar	J?gan 15 ; (貞?１５年)
Javanese calendar	771?772
Julian calendar	873 ; DCCCLXXIII
Korean calendar	3206
Minguo calendar	1039 before ROC ; 民前1039年
Nanakshahi calendar	?595
Seleucid era	1184/1185 AG
Thai solar calendar	1415?1416
Tibetan calendar	?水?年 ; (male Water- Dragon ) ; 999 or 618 or ?154 ; ? to ? ; ?水蛇年 ; (female Water- Snake ) ; 1000 or 619 or ?153

Millennium :	1st millennium
Centuries :	8th century ; 9th century ; 10th century ;
Decades :	850s ; 860s ; 870s ; 880s ; 890s ;
Years :	870 ; 871 ; 872 ; 873 ; 874 ; 875 ; 876 ;

Year 873 ( DCCCLXXIII ) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .

Events [ edit ]

Carloman , son of King Charles the Bald , is hauled before a secular court and condemned to death ? for plotting against his father. He is blinded, but avoids imprisonment by escaping to the East Frankish Kingdom , where his uncle, Louis the German , gives him protection. ^[1]
Al-Andalus : The city of Toledo (modern Spain ) rises up for a second time against Umayyad rule, due to ethnic tensions over two years .

The Danish Great Heathen Army , led by the Viking leaders Halfdan and Guthrum , attack Mercia and capture the royal centre at Repton ( Derbyshire ). The Vikings establish an encampment with a U-shape ditch, on the south bank of the River Trent and spend the winter there. ^[2]

Azugitin, Abbasid caliph Al-Mu'tamid appointed Azugitin as governor of Mosul with deputies.
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Armani , was killed at the Caliphate - Byzantine border in 873.
Muhammad ibn Tahir , Muslim governor of Khorasan , is overthrown by the Saffarids , led by Ya'qub ibn al-Layth , who conquer the capital, Nishapur . Khorasan is annexed to their own empire in eastern Persia . The Tahirid Dynasty falls.

August 15 – Emperor Yi Zong ( Li Cu? ) dies after a 13-year reign. He is succeeded by his 11-year-old son Xi Zong , as ruler of the Tang Dynasty . During his reign, a widespread failure of the agricultural harvest leads to famine (which causes people to resort to cannibalism ) and agrarian rebellions.

Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah , was the founder of the Isma'ili Fatimid Empire, the only major Shi'a caliphate in the 10th century history, and the eleventh Imam of the Isma'ili faith (d. 934 )
Abu Yazid , Kharijite Berber leader (d. 947 )
Ahmad al-Muhajir , Muslim imam (d. 956 )
Al-Tabarani , Muslim hadith scholar (d. 970 )
Fujiwara no Sadakata , Japanese poet (d. 932 )
Ordono II , king of Galicia and Leon (d. 924 )

^ McKitterick, Rosamond (1983). The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Carolingians, 751-987 (Illustrated ed.). Longman. pp. 186?187. ISBN 978-0-582-49005-5 .
^ * Hill, Paul (2009). The Viking wars of Alfred the Great . Westholme. p. 57. ISBN 9781594160875 .