882
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century · 9th century · 10th century |
| Decades: | 850s · 860s · 870s · 880s · 890s · 900s · 910s |
| Years: | 879 · 880 · 881 · 882 · 883 · 884 · 885 |
| 882 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 882 DCCCLXXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1635 |
| Armenian calendar | 331 ԹՎ ՅԼԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5632 |
| Bengali calendar | 289 |
| Berber calendar | 1832 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1426 |
| Burmese calendar | 244 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6390–6391 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3578 or 3518 — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3579 or 3519 |
| Coptic calendar | 598–599 |
| Discordian calendar | 2048 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 874–875 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4642–4643 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 938–939 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 803–804 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3982–3983 |
| Holocene calendar | 10882 |
| Iranian calendar | 260–261 |
| Islamic calendar | 268–269 |
| Japanese calendar | Gangyō 6 (元慶６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 780–781 |
| Julian calendar | 882 DCCCLXXXII |
| Korean calendar | 3215 |
| Minguo calendar | 1030 before ROC 民前1030年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −586 |
| Seleucid era | 1193/1194 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1424–1425 |
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Pope Martinus II (882–884)
Year 882 (DCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- January 20 – King Louis the Younger dies in Frankfurt. He leaves his territory to his younger brother, emperor Charles the Fat who becomes sole ruler of the East Frankish Kingdom.
- Siege of Asselt: Charles the Fat besieges a Viking camp who has plundered along the Meuse, the Rhine and the Moselle. He defeats their leader Godfrid and grants him West Frisia.
- August 5 – King Carloman II becomes sole ruler of the West Frankish Kingdom after the accidental death of his brother, Louis III. His power is limited by rebellious nobles in Burgundy.
- Oleg of Novgorod takes Kiev and makes it his capital starting in Russia and Eastern Europe forming the Kievan Rus' replacing the 19-year-long Christianization of the Rus' Khaganate.
Britain
- King Alfred the Great increases the size of his new navy and sails out to attack four Viking ships. Two of the ships are captured (before they surrender) and the other crews are killed.[1]
Arabian Empire
- December – Ishaq ibn Kundaj, a Turkic military leader, arrests the Abbasid caliph Al-Mu'tamid when the latter (and his followers) tries to flee into Tulunid territory.
By topic
Religion
- December 16 – Pope John VIII is assassinated at Rome after a 10-year reign, probably the victim of a political conspiracy. He is succeeded by Martinus II as the 108th pope of the Catholic Church.
Births
- February 8 – Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid, founder of the Ikhshidid Dynasty (d. 946)
- Abu 'l-Asakir Jaysh ibn Khumarawayh, Muslim emir (approximate date)
- Cao Zhongda, official and chancellor of Wuyue (d. 943)
- Saadia Gaon, Jewish philosopher and exegete (or 892)
- Xia Luqi, general of the Later Tang Dynasty (d. 930)
Deaths
- January 20 – Louis the Younger, king of the East Frankish Kingdom
- August 5 – Louis III, king of the West Frankish Kingdom
- December 16 – John VIII, pope of the Catholic Church
- December 21 – Hincmar, archbishop of Reims (b. 806)
- Ainbíth mac Áedo, Dál Fiatach king of Ulaid (Ireland)
- Al-Hasan ibn Makhlad al-Jarrah, Muslim vizier
- Ansgarde of Burgundy, Frankish queen (or 880)
- Chen Tao, Chinese poet (b. 824)
- Eric Anundsson, Swedish king (approximate date)
- Eudokia Ingerina, Byzantine empress (approximate date)
- Duan Yanmo, Chinese warlord (approximate date)
- García Íñiguez I, king of Pamplona (approximate date)
- Guaram Mampali, Georgian Bagratid prince
- Lambert III, Frankish nobleman (b. 830)
References
- ↑ Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, p. 103. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5.
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