874

This article is about the year 874.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century 9th century 10th century
Decades:	840s 850s 860s 870s 880s 890s 900s
Years:	871 872 873 874 875 876 877

874 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

874 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	874 DCCCLXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1627
Armenian calendar	323 ԹՎ ՅԻԳ
Assyrian calendar	5624
Bengali calendar	281
Berber calendar	1824
Buddhist calendar	1418
Burmese calendar	236
Byzantine calendar	6382–6383
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3570 or 3510     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3571 or 3511
Coptic calendar	590–591
Discordian calendar	2040
Ethiopian calendar	866–867
Hebrew calendar	4634–4635
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	930–931
- Shaka Samvat	795–796
- Kali Yuga	3974–3975
Holocene calendar	10874
Iranian calendar	252–253
Islamic calendar	260–261
Japanese calendar	Jōgan 16 (貞観１６年)
Javanese calendar	772–773
Julian calendar	874 DCCCLXXIV
Korean calendar	3207
Minguo calendar	1038 before ROC 民前1038年
Nanakshahi calendar	−594
Seleucid era	1185/1186 AG
Thai solar calendar	1416–1417

Ingólfr Arnarson arrives in Iceland (1850)

Year 874 (DCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Salomon, duke ('king') of Brittany, is murdered by a faction which includes his son-in-law Pascweten and Gurvand, son-in-law of late ruler Erispoe. After Salomon's death they divide the country and co-ruling Brittany.
• Svatopluk I, ruler (knyaz) of Great Moravia, concludes a peace treaty at Forchheim (Northern Bavaria). He is able to expand his territories outside the Frankish sphere and subjugates the Vistulans.
• Ingólfr Arnarson arrives from Norway as the first permanent Viking settler in Iceland. He builds his homestead and founds Reykjavík. The settlement of Iceland begins (approximate date).

Britain

• The Danish Vikings drive from their base at Repton king Burgred of Mercia into exile and sack Tamworth. They conquer his kingdom and install his political opponent, Ceolwulf II as sub-king.
• Autumn – The Great Heathen Army splits into two bands, Halfdan returns with his forces to Northumbria, along with his brother Ubba, where he establishes a new base on the River Tyne.
• Amlaíb Conung, first Norse 'king' of Dublin, is killed in Scotland on a campaign against his rival Constantin I (approximate date).
• November – Frost begins in Scotland and lasts until April 875.

China

• Huang Chao, a salt privateer, joints forces with Wang Xianzhi to raise an rebel army at Changyuan (modern Xinxiang). The uprising weakens the Tang Dynasty further which is caused by natural disasters—such as severe droughts and floods.

By topic

Religion

• March 13 – The remains of Saint Nikephorus I are interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople.
• The monastery of Sevanavank is founded, located on the shore of Lake Sevan (Armenia).

Births

• Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, Muslim scholar (d. 936)
• Edward the Elder, king of Wessex (approximate date)
• Constantine II, king of Scotland (approximate date)
• Liu Yin, governor (jiedushi) of Southern Han (d. 911)
• Lothar II, Frankish nobleman (d. 929)
• May 10 – Meng Zhixiang, general of Later Tang (d. 934)
• Wang Shifan, Chinese warlord (d. 908)

Deaths

• December 16 – Ado, archbishop of Vienne
• August 15 – Altfrid, bishop of Hildesheim
• Amlaíb Conung, Viking leader (approximate date)
• Bayazid Bastami, Persian Sufi (approximate date)
• Han Yunzhong, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 814)
• January 4 – Hasan al-Askari, 11th Shia Imam (b. 846)
• Liu Zhan, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
• Lu Yan, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 829)
• Pei Tan, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
• Salomon, duke ('king') of Brittany
• Unruoch III, margrave of Friuli
• Yahya II, Muslim sultan