This page relates to the year 875 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Kampuchea

• Beginning of the reign of Indravarman Ier, king of the Kampuchea (fine in 889).

• Construction of the “hydraulic city” with Roluos with the Kampuchea (fine in 889).

China

• Beginning of the great revolt carried out by Huang Chao against the capacity of North (fine in 884) in the Hebei and the Shandong. The government arms the population to fight against the Jacques, but this one joint with Huang Chao and the revolt becomes general.
• the decline of the Dynastie Tang starts. The trade stops during the Jacquerie. The food shortage prevails, the empire is dislocated.
• Massacre of 120.000 (?) Moslems with Canton (875 - 878).

The Middle East & Arab world

• the emir aghlabide of Ifriqiya, Ibrahim II transfers the capital to Raqqada.

Worsen Carolingian

• August 12th: Died of the emperor Louis II with Brescia. The pope offers to the crown of emperor to Charles the Bald person and makes him lend oath to be the defender of the Church, while Louis Germanic the, patient, invades Francie Western. The imperial policy of Charles is only one long series of failures vis-a-vis the revolts in Italy and to wire of Louis Germanic the.

• December 29th: With Rome, the pope Jean VIII crown emperor Charles the Bald person.

• the monks of Noirmoutier arrive at Tournus transporting the relics of Saint Philibert.

• Breton the Gurvant pushes back the Viking S with Questembert.

Italy

• Seat of Grado by the Musulmans (Sarrasins) which also plunder Comacchio between 875 - 876. The city disappears definitively and leaves the place to Venice.

• the fleet of the cities of the south of Italy, plain with the Buckwheats, plunders the Roman coast. The emperor Louis II declares that Naples became another Africa.
• the death of the emperor Louis II without male heir involves in Italy of the years of chaos and confusion, the aristocracy engaging for Germany or France, the title of king d' Italie being generally associated with that of emperor. At the IX and 10th century, one attends in Italy with the progressive obliteration of the imperial capacity and the rise to power of the urban elites and the communal capacities.

• Venice striking a new type of Sum of money in the name of the city (end in 883).

Scandinavia

• Beginning of the colonization of the Iceland (fine in 930).

• the Viking Ingólfur Arnarson founds the town of Reykjavík in Iceland.
• considerable Reduction in the number of the treasures hidden in the ground in Scandinavia between 875 and 900.

Central Europe & Balkans

• the Serbes convert with the Byzantine Christianisme and separate from the Croatian , faithful to the Latin Church.
• Baptism by Method of Borivoj Přemyslide, Czech prince of Bohemia.

Births in 875

Death in 875

• August 12th: Louis II (° 825), wire of Lothaire Ier and Ermengarde, emperor of Occident (855 -875).

• December 6th: Holy Adon, bishop of Vienna. (° v. 800).

• Muslim, Moslem author of a book of Hadith S (words and acts of the Prophet).

• Amram Gaon, Talmud Jewish ist of the academy of Sura.

Map-bms: 875

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