871

This page relates to the year 871 Calendrier Julien.

Events

January 8th: Victoire d' Alfred the Large one on the Danes with Ashdown. The countryside however continues several months and Alfred must pay a tribute so that the Vikings leave Wessex after nine battles.
April 23rd: Beginning of the reign of Alfred Large the, king of Wessex (fine in 878).

the Viking S Danish develop on the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms a system of protectorate together with tributes.
the Viking S Danish strike their first currency with London in the name of their chief Halfdan.

Reign of Ívarr, Norwegian king of Dublin.
Olaf the White leaves Dublin to help his/her father the king of Norway in war against Lochlannes. He dies during a battle in Norway. His/her Ívarr brother succeeds to him as king of all the Ireland. Its reign will be for Ireland one period of relative peace, undoubtedly because of discovered and the beginning of the colonization of the Iceland which mobilizes the Norwegians.

January: Boson becomes count de Vienne.
November 1st: A diploma of Charles the Bald person concedes with the Church of Besancon the pleasure of the monetary workshop.

Géraud d' Aurillac, descendant of a senatorial family whose origin goes back to Césaire of Arles and with Saint Aridius of Limoges (6th century), founds the monastery of Saint-Clement d' Aurillac.

Byzantine and Francs beat the Moors in southernmost Italy.
Insurrection of the princes of Bénévent and Naples against the emperor Louis II.

Bari is taken again to the Moslems by the emperor of Occident Louis II, helped by Venice and the Byzantine governor of Otranto. The long seat of the city and the persistence presence of Louis II in the South of Italy involve the formation of a coalition which makes it captive. This imprisonment with Bénévent ruin its prestige and when it is released, it must be made again crown emperor to restore his authority. The last years of its reign are described by the contemporaries like apocalyptic: in 871, the wine would have boiled in the barrels, in 872, floods and plagues break on Italy, in 875, a comet precedes by little its death. Its action in the South will benefit the Byzantines especially.

Taken Syracuse by the Moslem (Buckwheats) after 9 months of seat. The Sicily Aghlabide knows a brilliant civilization.

the king of Moravie Svatopluk is arrested by the Bavarian ones and is imprisoned. At the time of a revolt which bursts in Grande Moravie against the general lieutenant set up by the duke of Bavaria Carloman, the Bavarian ones make leave Svatopluk prison and try to use it to repress the rebels. Deserted Svatopluk and puts at the head its compatriots against the Bavarian armies, carries it and returns independence in Moravie.

Byzance becomes again main of the passages of the Taurus, the Anti-Taurus and the Euphrate (871 - 882).

Chronic Anglo-Saxon: Alfred Large the, king of Wessex orders to gather the historical documents former to its reign (written in Latin) and to make systematically write the events concerning the England under its authority (in Anglo-Saxon). The tradition remains under its successors.

Euthymios the Young person (823 - 898) founds the convent of Peristerai in Chalcidique.

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