879

Year 879 (DCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
879 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar879
DCCCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita1632
Armenian calendar328
ԹՎ ՅԻԸ
Assyrian calendar5629
Balinese saka calendar800–801
Bengali calendar286
Berber calendar1829
Buddhist calendar1423
Burmese calendar241
Byzantine calendar6387–6388
Chinese calendar戊戌(Earth Dog)
3575 or 3515
     to 
己亥年 (Earth Pig)
3576 or 3516
Coptic calendar595–596
Discordian calendar2045
Ethiopian calendar871–872
Hebrew calendar4639–4640
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat935–936
 - Shaka Samvat800–801
 - Kali Yuga3979–3980
Holocene calendar10879
Iranian calendar257–258
Islamic calendar265–266
Japanese calendarGangyō 3
(元慶3年)
Javanese calendar777–778
Julian calendar879
DCCCLXXIX
Korean calendar3212
Minguo calendar1033 before ROC
民前1033年
Nanakshahi calendar−589
Seleucid era1190/1191 AG
Thai solar calendar1421–1422
Tibetan calendar阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
1005 or 624 or −148
     to 
阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
1006 or 625 or −147
Coin of Louis III and his brother Carloman II

Events

Europe

Britain

Arabian Empire

Asia

  • Guangzhou Massacre: The Chinese rebel leader Huang Chao besieges the seaport in Guangzhou, and slaughters many of its inhabitants and foreign merchants. According to sources, the death toll ranges from 120,000 to 200,000 foreigners.[2][3]

Religion

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Kennedy 2001, pp. 153–154.
  2. Laet, Sigfried J. de (1994). History of Humanity: From the seventh to the sixteenth century (Illustrated ed.). UNESCO. ISBN 978-92-3-102813-7.
  3. Lipman, Jonathan N. (1997). Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China (Illustrated ed.). University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-97644-0.

Sources

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