878

This page relates to the year 878 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Huang Chao directs revolted towards the south where it plunders the port of Fuzhou then that of Canton (879) of which it massacres the population.
the federate Turks of the Ordos, the Shatuo or Tchöl settle in the north of the Shanxi.

Khumarawaih diverts with the profit of the Egypt part of the taxes due to the Caliph, in order to embellish his province and to support its managed. These initiatives are not appreciated by the caliph of Baghdad, which sends a military forwarding in Egypt.

Ibn Toulun enters in fight against the Caliph Abbasside, anxious of the growing power of the Egypt. It puts the Syrian troops charged to relieve it in rout. While being based on the movement qarmate, it conquers the Syria then the Cilicie and part of the Mésopotamie.

With died of the last Imam alide Muhammad Al-Mahdi, Alides Duodécimains where Imânites admit that this disappearance is only temporary. The hidden iman (Mahdi) will return at the end them time to restore the truth and justice; It is the beginning of “ screening ”. Duodécimains abstain from now on any violent action. The allowed principle of the Takiya (for the Shiite , dissimulation of their beliefs by prudence) enables them to take share with the political life and economic world Abbasside and to gain many followers in Iraq and Western Iran in the governmental mediums (Buyides, Hamdanides).

May 21st: The Arab seize Syracuse after ten months of seat. Byzance preserves in Sicily only Taormina.
August 11th: The pope Jean VIII, driven out at the same time by the Buckwheats the Roman and clerks, comes to ask of the Western assistance in Francie for. He opens a council with Troyes, to which the princes balk to go.

Beginning of the reign of Alfred Large the, king of the Anglo-Saxon (fine in 899).

Alfred the large one creates an army, a fleet and a code of right common to all the Saxon ones of the West, concretizing the national unit.

May: Alfred the Large one gains the Bataille of Edington ( Ethandun ) against the Danish of Guthrum. He releases Northumbrie. The Danes are constrained to accept the Paix of Wedmore (879) and become vassal of Alfred. They create the state of Danelaw in the North-East of England, which extends on more than one third of the island.

the East Anglia ( East Anglia ) becomes a Danish kingdom. The Danish chief Guthrum converts with Christianity (it takes the name of Ethelstand) then directs his attacks towards the East Anglia, where it distributes grounds to his men (880).

September 7th: With Troyes, the pope Jean VIII sacring and crown second once Louis II '' the Stammerer '', but refuses to crown Adélaïde of the Friuli, perhaps because of the repudiation of Ansgarde of Burgundy.
1 {{er}} - November 2nd: Interview of Fouron, close to Liege, between Louis II '' the Stammerer '' and his cousin Louis the Eastern Young person, king of Francie to regulate the succession of Lothaire II and Louis Germanic the. A friendship and peace treaty is signed, confirming the existing borders.

Baudouin II the Bald person becomes count de Flandre (fine in 919). It establishes its capacity in the vacuum created by the Scandinavian invasions. It seizes the fields left by the laic ones and the ecclesiastics and tries to increase its states towards the south. It makes assassinate Foulques, archbishop of Rheims like Herbert de Vermandois.
With died of Bernard de Gothie, Bernard Plantevelue obtains the Septimanie, the Berry, the Autunois, and perhaps the Poitou.
Wilfred Hairy the, last count de Barcelone named by king de Francie Western strengthens his local authority, adapts the revenue duties and makes the title of count hereditary. He makes himself almost independent (880).
the defeat of the Danish in England with the Battle of Edington, gained by the king of Wessex Alfred Large the (878 - 899), causes an offensive generalized of the Viking S on the France, the Flanders and the Germany of 878 with 891.
Seat of Fraud by the Viking Hastein.

the pope Jean VIII ensures the frank bishops that “ those which fight the pagan ones valiantly and the infidels, if they perish with the piety of the catholic faith, will enter the rest of eternal life ”.

Translation of the Writings , the works patristics and ecclesiastical History of Bède Worthy the in Anglo-Saxon.

Aed Ier of Scotland, king of shells since 877.
Baudouin Arm-of-iron, count of Flanders, which had removed Judith, girl of Charles the Bald person.
Muhammad Al-Mahdi, the last and twelfth Imam alide.
Pyinbya, founder of Pagan in 849 (Myanmar).

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