875

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century 9th century 10th century
Decades:	850s 860s 870s 880s 890s
Years:	872 873 874 875 876 877 878

875 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	875 DCCCLXXV
Ab urbe condita	1628
Armenian calendar	324 ԹՎ ՅԻԴ
Assyrian calendar	5625
Balinese saka calendar	796–797
Bengali calendar	282
Berber calendar	1825
Buddhist calendar	1419
Burmese calendar	237
Byzantine calendar	6383–6384
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3572 or 3365     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3573 or 3366
Coptic calendar	591–592
Discordian calendar	2041
Ethiopian calendar	867–868
Hebrew calendar	4635–4636
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	931–932
- Shaka Samvat	796–797
- Kali Yuga	3975–3976
Holocene calendar	10875
Iranian calendar	253–254
Islamic calendar	261–262
Japanese calendar	Jōgan 17 (貞観１７年)
Javanese calendar	773–774
Julian calendar	875 DCCCLXXV
Korean calendar	3208
Minguo calendar	1037 before ROC 民前1037年
Nanakshahi calendar	−593
Seleucid era	1186/1187 AG
Thai solar calendar	1417–1418
Tibetan calendar	阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1001 or 620 or −152     — to — 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1002 or 621 or −151

Year 875 (DCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• In Champa, in the central region of modern-day Vietnam, King Indravarman II founds a new dynasty at Indrapura (Quảng Nam) and initiates a building program featuring the Dong Duong Style of Cham art.
• The dynasty of the Samanids established a court in Bukhara, a major city on the Silk Road.

Africa

• The construction of Mosque of Uqba, Kairouan, Tunisia, is ended.

Europe

• August 12 – Emperor Louis II dies in Brescia after having named his cousin Carloman, son of king Louis the German, as his successor. Louis is buried in the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan.
• December 29 – King Charles the Bald, supported by pope John VIII, travels to Italy. He receives the Imperial Regalia at Pavia and is crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Charles II at Rome.
• King Harald Fairhair of Norway subdues the rovers on the Orkney, Shetland, Hebrides and Faroe Islands, and adds them to his kingdom.
• Battle of Dollar fought at Dollar in the Kingdom of Scotland: Danes invading under Thorstem defeat the men of Alba under King Constantine, going on to occupy Caithness, Sutherland, Ross and Moray, far to the north.
• Danes capture Lindisfarne and arrive in Cambridge.
• Vikings, probably led by Halfdan Ragnarsson, invade Dublin and Eystein Olafsson, King of Dublin, is killed.
• Donyarth, last recorded King of Cornwall, drowns in what is thought to be the River Fowey.

Births

• Fujiwara no Nakahira, Japanese statesman (d. 945)

Deaths

• August 12 – Louis II, king of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 825)
• October 28 – Remigius of Lyon, Frankish archbishop
• November 11 – Teutberga, queen of Lotharingia
• 'Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Yazdad al-Marwazi, Persian official
• Donyarth, king of Cornwall (approximate date)
• Eystein Olafsson, Norse–Gael King of Dublin
• Amram Gaon, Jewish liturgist
• Martianus Hiberniensis, Irish-born teacher and calligrapher
• Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, Persian scholar