__NOTOC__ Year 873 ( DCCCLXXIII) was a

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Events

By place

Europe

* 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 Frankish Kingdom, where his uncle, Louis the German, gives him protection. * Al-Andalus: The city of

Toledo Toledo most commonly refers to: * Toledo, Spain, a city in Spain * Province of Toledo, Spain * Toledo, Ohio, a city in the United States Toledo may also refer to: Places Belize * Toledo District * Toledo Settlement Bolivia * Toledo, Orur ...

(modern Spain) rises up for a second time against Umayyad rule, due to ethnic tensions over two years.

Britain

* The Danish Great Heathen Army, led by the Viking leaders 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.*

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 – 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 cannibalism) and agrarian society, agrarian rebellions.

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 – Gunther (archbishop of Cologne), Gunther, archbishop of Cologne * August 1 – Thachulf, Duke of Thuringia, Thachulf, duke of Thuringia * August 15 – Emperor Yizong of Tang, Yi Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 833) Al-Kindi Portrait

* 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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