874

This page relates to the year 874 Calendrier Julien.

Events

The Middle East

Foundation of the dynasty of the Samanides by Saman Khudat. It which dominate the Perse and the Transoxiane (fine in 999). Going down from the old nobility sassanide of Transoxiane, Saman is charged by the Tahirides with the guard with the northern border, vis-a-vis the Turks. It support on solid administration imitated of that of Baghdad and on an army made up of Khorasaniens and slaves Turkish.
the period samanide is that of a brilliant Iranian rebirth and a great commercial development, in particular with the Turkish world (Karlouks, Oghuz, Khazars, Bulgares of the Volga).

British Isles

Countryside of the Viking S against the Pictes of Scotland and Britons of Strathclyde.

the king Burgred of Mercie, in England, gives up its states with the Viking S. Danish Hálfdan turns over to the Deira (Northumbrie) where it runs up against the Norwegian king of Dublin Ívarr which asserts the country.

the monks massively leave the Mercie and the Northumbrie delivered to the pagan ones.

Scandinavia

Beginning of the colonization of the Iceland by 20.000 Norwegian pioneers and Irish slaves (“age of Saga”, 870 - 930).

the first newcomers, a hundred, divide the island, by respecting the magic rites relating to the taking possession of the ground. The following obtains first of the batches of grounds, either peacefully by buying them, or by causing in duel the owners. The majority of the colonists come from Norway (on 432, six colonizers come from the Götaland, in Sweden, only one of the Denmark). Each colonizer arrives with his family, his slaves and his customers, a score of people at least. They do not arrive necessarily directly from Norway, but also of Great Britain and Ireland. Some of these are already christianized.
Their increasing number, the colonists test the need to organize and trace a land register. According to the tradition, Thorsteinn, wire of Ingólfr Arnarson, the first colonist, establishes the first local assembly, the Thing of Kjalarnes, in the north of Reykjavik. Other assemblies are created thereafter on the same model.
According to the Book of the Icelanders of Sæmundr the Scientist, the first colonizers Scandinavian find Iceland deserted except for some “papar” (Irish monks) which they expel. However archeology attests the evidence of a Celtic presence good before 874.
Norwegian Ingólfr Arnarson and his/her brother sworn Hjörleilf Hróddrmarsson arrives to Iceland after a difficult business with the jarl Atli. Hjörleilf is killed by slaves whom it had harnessed with his plow. Those seek refuge in small islands in the south-east of Iceland, to which they give their name: Vestmannaeyjar, islands of the “men of the west”, i.e. of Irish. After having punished the assassins of its brother, Ingólfr is fixed at Reykjavík (Bay of smoke).

Central Europe

the archbishop of Mainz sends missionaries to try évangéliser the Sorabes.

the king of Moravie Svatopluk beats the Francs and assistant of his federation the king of Bohemia, Borivoj, the princes sorabes of Lusace and the Slaves of the the Vistula around Cracow. The Large Moravie, thus indicated by the basileus Constantin VII Porphyrogénète, becomes a vast Slavic empire. At the time of its greater extension, it extends starting from the valleys from the Moravie from South-east and the Slovakia from South-west towards the countries from the the Vistula in North from the Carpates, the Bohemia and the Lusace (current Saxony) in the west, of the territories in the South of the the Danube and the border between the Slovakia and the current Ukraine in the East.

Russia

the patriarch of Constantinople Ignatios appoints an archbishop in Russia.

Art & culture

Book of the Roads of Ibn-Kordadbeh (854 -874): he speaks about the Juifs Rhadanites and about their maritime trade and terrestrial between Orient and Occident (slaves, fabrics, spices, salt, wine, etc).

Births in 874

Birth supposed of Constantin II, future king d' Écosse

Death in 874

January 1st: Hassan Al-Askari, Imam alide.

June 25th: Solomon, king of Brittany, is assassinated by his/her son-in-law, Pascweten, and Gurwant, son-in-law of Erispoë. Divide kingdom.
Al Bistami, mystic Soufi known by its disciples. It develops the idea of the destruction of the personality as a God (“Glory with me, that large is my majesty”).

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