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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 840s 850s 860s – 870s – 880s 890s 900s |
| Years: | 870 871 872 – 873 – 874 875 876 |
| 873 by topic | |
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| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 873 DCCCLXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1626 |
| Armenian calendar | 322 ԹՎ ՅԻԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5623 |
| Bengali calendar | 280 |
| Berber calendar | 1823 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1417 |
| Burmese calendar | 235 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6381–6382 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3569 or 3509 — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3570 or 3510 |
| Coptic calendar | 589–590 |
| Discordian calendar | 2039 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 865–866 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4633–4634 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 929–930 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 795–796 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3974–3975 |
| Holocene calendar | 10873 |
| Iranian calendar | 251–252 |
| Islamic calendar | 259–260 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōgan 15 (貞観１５年) |
| Julian calendar | 873 DCCCLXXIII |
| Korean calendar | 3206 |
| Minguo calendar | 1039 before ROC 民前1039年 |
| Seleucid era | 1184/1185 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1415–1416 |
Year 873 (DCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- The Vikings raid Dorestad.
- Al-Andalus: Second uprising of Toledo due to ethnic tensions in two years.
Asia
- A widespread failure of the agricultural harvest in Tang Dynasty China leads to an equally widespread famine; in the previous century the central government was able to curb famine with large grain stores, but this time the central government is already in decline and too weak to properly face the disaster.
Births
Deaths
- abu al-Kindi, Arab scientist
- Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Arabian physician
- John III of Antioch, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch
