What is 870?
{{Year nav|870}} {{Year in various calendars|870}} {{Year article header|870}} == Events == === By place === ==== Europe ==== * [[Prague Castle]] is founded. * The [[Great Summer Army]] invades England. It is led by [[Bagsecg]]. They conquers [[East Anglia]]. * [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Meerssen]]: [[Charles the Bald]] and [[Louis the German]] divide [[Lotharingia]] among themselves. * [[December 31]] &ndash; The Danes are defeated by a Saxon army at [[Englefield, Berkshire|Englefield]], [[Berkshire]]. It is the first of a series of battles between Wessex and the Danes. * [[Malta]] is conquered by Arabs from [[Sicily]]. * [[Borivoj]] becomes duke of [[Bohemia]]. * [[Charles the Bald]] marries Richilde. === By topic === ==== Religion ==== * Michael II succeeds Michael I as [[Patriarch of Alexandria]]. * The Autonomous [[Bulgarian Archbishopric]] is made. * [[February 28]] &ndash; The [[Fourth Council of Constantinople]] ends. == Births == * [[Al-Farabi]], [[Persia]]n [[philosopher]] and [[scientist]] * [[Zwentibold]], King of [[Lotharingia]] == Deaths == * [[November 20]] &ndash; King [[Edmund of East Anglia]] * [[al-Bukhari]], Persian hadith compiler * [[Al-Kindi]], philosopher {{DEFAULTSORT:870}} [[Category:870]]