Editing 873

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Year '''873''' ('''[[Roman numerals|DCCCLXXIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Europe ====
* [[Carloman, son of Charles the Bald|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 Francia|East Frankish Kingdom]], where his uncle, [[Louis the German]], gives him protection.<ref>{{cite book |last1=McKitterick |first1=Rosamond |title=The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Carolingians, 751-987 |date=1983 |publisher=Longman |isbn=978-0-582-49005-5 |edition=Illustrated |pages=186–187 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtNnAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>
* [[Al-Andalus]]: The city of [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]] (modern [[Spain]]) rises up for a second time against [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyad]] rule, due to ethnic tensions over [[872|two years]].

==== Britain ====
* The Danish [[Great Heathen Army]], led by the Viking leaders [[Halfdan Ragnarsson|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.<ref>*{{cite book |last1=Hill |first1=Paul |title=The Viking wars of Alfred the Great |date=2009 |publisher=Westholme |page=57 |isbn=9781594160875}}</ref>

==== Abbasid Caliphate ====
* 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 [[Greater Khorasan|Khorasan]], is overthrown by the [[Saffarid dynasty|Saffarids]], led by [[Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar|Ya'qub ibn al-Layth]], who conquer the capital, [[Nishapur]]. Khorasan is annexed to their own empire in eastern [[Iran|Persia]]. The [[Tahirid dynasty|Tahirid Dynasty]] falls.

==== China ====
* [[August 15]] &ndash; Emperor [[Emperor Yizong of Tang|Yi Zong]] ('''Li Cuī''') dies after a 13-year reign. He is succeeded by his 11-year-old son [[Emperor Xizong of Tang|Xi Zong]], as ruler of the [[Tang dynasty|Tang Dynasty]]. During his reign, a widespread failure of the agricultural [[harvest]] leads to [[famine]] (which causes people to resort to [[Human cannibalism|cannibalism]]) and [[agrarian society|agrarian]] rebellions.
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== Births ==
* [[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]], [[Khawarij|Kharijite]] [[Berbers|Berber]] leader (d. [[947]])
* [[Ahmad al-Muhajir]], Muslim [[imam]] (d. [[956]])
* [[Al-Tabarani]], Muslim [[hadith]] scholar (d. [[970]])
* [[Fujiwara no Sadakata]], Japanese [[Japanese poetry|poet]] (d. [[932]])
* [[Ordoño II of León|Ordoño II]], king of [[Kingdom of Galicia|Galicia]] and [[Kingdom of León|León]] (d. [[924]])

== Deaths ==
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Gunther (archbishop of Cologne)|Gunther]], archbishop of [[Cologne]]
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Thachulf, Duke of Thuringia|Thachulf]], duke of [[Thuringia]]
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Emperor Yizong of Tang|Yi Zong]], emperor of the Tang Dynasty (b. [[833]])
[[File:Al-Kindi Portrait.jpg|thumb|Death of [[Al-Kindi]]. He was an Arab Muslim philosopher, polymath, mathematician, physician and musician. Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy]]
* [[Al-Kindi]], Muslim philosopher and [[polymath]] 
* [[Du Cong]], [[Chancellor of the Tang dynasty|chancellor of the Tang Dynasty]] (b. [[794]])
* [[Ecgberht I of Northumbria|Ecgberht I]], king of [[Kingdom of Northumbria|Northumbria]]
* [[Hunayn ibn Ishaq]], Muslim scholar and [[physician]] (b. [[809]])
* [[Ivar the Boneless]], Viking leader (approximate date)
* [[John IV of Antioch|John III]], [[Syriac Orthodox Church|Syriac Orthodox]] patriarch of [[Antioch]]
* [[Kang Chengxun]], general of the Tang Dynasty 
* [[Lethlobar mac Loingsig]], king of [[Ulaid]] ([[Ireland]])
* [[Malik ibn Tawk]], Muslim governor
* [[Muhammad ibn Ali al-Armani]], Muslim general
* [[Rodrigo of Castile|Rodrigo]], Asturian [[Nobility|nobleman]]
* [[Rodulf Haraldsson]], Viking leader
* [[Shinshō (Shingon)|Shinshō]], Japanese [[Buddhism in Japan|Buddhist]] monk (b. [[797]])
* [[Vímara Peres]], Asturian nobleman
* [[Wei Baoheng]], chancellor of the Tang Dynasty

== References ==
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