877

This article is about the year 877. For the number, see 877 (number). For the area code, see Toll-free telephone number.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	840s  850s  860s  – 870s –  880s  890s  900s
Years:	874 875 876 – 877 – 878 879 880

877 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

877 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	877 DCCCLXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1630
Armenian calendar	326 ԹՎ ՅԻԶ
Assyrian calendar	5627
Bengali calendar	284
Berber calendar	1827
Buddhist calendar	1421
Burmese calendar	239
Byzantine calendar	6385–6386
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3573 or 3513     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3574 or 3514
Coptic calendar	593–594
Discordian calendar	2043
Ethiopian calendar	869–870
Hebrew calendar	4637–4638
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	933–934
- Shaka Samvat	799–800
- Kali Yuga	3978–3979
Holocene calendar	10877
Iranian calendar	255–256
Islamic calendar	263–264
Japanese calendar	Jōgan 19 / Gangyō 1 (元慶元年)
Julian calendar	877 DCCCLXXVII
Korean calendar	3210
Minguo calendar	1035 before ROC 民前1035年
Seleucid era	1188/1189 AG
Thai solar calendar	1419–1420

Year 877 (DCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• Indravarman I succeeds Jayavarman III as ruler of the Khmer Empire.
• What is now Syria became part of Egypt

Europe

• The Danes take Exeter, and settle in the Five Boroughs of England.
• A flotilla of 120 Danish ships is lost in a storm off Swanage.
• Battle of Strangford Lough: In a battle between Dubgaill and Finngaill Vikings at Strangford Lough in Ireland, Halfdan Ragnarsson, leader of the Great Heathen Army, is killed in an attempt to claim the Kingdom of Dublin from Bárid mac Ímair (who is lamed).
• Áed mac Cináeda succeeds his brother Causantín mac Cináeda as King of the Picts in Scotland.
• Pope John VIII requests the help of Charles the Bald, King of West Francia, against attacks by the Saracens in Italy.
• June – Charles sets out for Italy, accompanied by his wife Richilda and only a small number of his chief vassals. Orders are issued for an army to be assembled to join him a little later. Pope John VIII receives Charles at Vercelli. But at the same time Carloman, king of Bavaria and the East Mark, has also crossed the Alps into eastern Lombardy at the head of a powerful army. Charles hurries on the coronation of Richilda as Empress and sends her back to Gaul with orders for the reinforcements to hurry. However, the Frankish aristocracy is more concerned with the attacks by the Northmen in their country than the war with the Saracens in southern Italy. When the reinforcements do not arrive, Charles the Bald is compelled to return to West Francia. But on the road he dies in a poor hovel. It is said that he was poisoned by his Jewish doctor Zedekiah. Carloman of Bavaria, forced by an epidemic which broke out in his army, returns to Germany. When Louis the Stammerer receives news of the death of his father, Charles the Bald, he makes plans to go into West Francia to receive the oath of fidelity from his new subjects. On his way he learns that the magnates are refusing him obedience by rallying around Boso and the Abbot Hugh. The rebels are supported by his stepmother, the widowed Empress Richilda, and, as a sign of their displeasure, ravage the country. Boso is the brother of Richilda and duke of Provence. Hugh had been given the Abbey of Saint-Bertin by Louis’ father. Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims, intercedes and the rebels agree to a settlement. The magnates, whose rights the king promises to recognize, all make their submissions.
• December 8 – Archbishop Hincmar crowns Louis the Stammerer as King of West Francia in the church of Compiègne.

Births

• January 31 – Wang Kon, Korean emperor
• Approx. date – Lady Ise, Japanese poet

Deaths

• October 6 – Charles the Bald, King of the Western Franks and Western Emperor
• October 23 – Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople
• Constantine I, King of the Scots and Picts
• Halfdan Ragnarsson