Year 883 (DCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| Gregorian calendar | 883 DCCCLXXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1636 |
| Armenian calendar | 332 ԹՎ ՅԼԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5633 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 804–805 |
| Bengali calendar | 290 |
| Berber calendar | 1833 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1427 |
| Burmese calendar | 245 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6391–6392 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3580 or 3373 — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3581 or 3374 |
| Coptic calendar | 599–600 |
| Discordian calendar | 2049 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 875–876 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4643–4644 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 939–940 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 804–805 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3983–3984 |
| Holocene calendar | 10883 |
| Iranian calendar | 261–262 |
| Islamic calendar | 269–270 |
| Japanese calendar | Gangyō 7 (元慶７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 781–782 |
| Julian calendar | 883 DCCCLXXXIII |
| Korean calendar | 3216 |
| Minguo calendar | 1029 before ROC 民前1029年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −585 |
| Seleucid era | 1194/1195 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1425–1426 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1009 or 628 or −144 — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1010 or 629 or −143 |
Events
editBy place
editEurope
edit- Spring – Viking raiders ravage Flanders, and sack the abbey at Saint-Quentin. King Carloman II blocks their passage at Laviers, which had been on the banks of the Somme. Meanwhile, Vikings enter the Rhine, but are turned back by Henry of Franconia (possibly a margrave of Saxony). They over-winter at Duisburg.
- King Charles the Fat travels to Nonantola (Northern Italy), where he meets Pope Marinus I. He receives complaints of Guy II of Spoleto, who is the official "protector" of Rome, and invades the Papal States. King Charles orders Guy to appear before a tribunal.
- Guy II of Spoleto begins a revolt, and assembles an army supported with Arab auxiliaries. King Charles the Fat sends Berengar of Friuli with an expeditionary force to deprive him of Spoleto. An epidemic ravages Berengar's army, and forces them to retire.[1]
- Svatopluk I, ruler (knyaz) of Great Moravia, conquers Lower Pannonia (today's Southwestern Hungary and Northern Croatia), during the succession strife in the East Frankish Kingdom (approximate date).
- The first historic document (written by Regino of Prüm) mentions Duisburg.
Arabian Empire
edit- The Zanj Rebellion: Abbasid general Al-Muwaffaq brings in Egyptian forces, to help him in his two-year siege of the Zanj capital Mukhtara. He captures the city, and crushes the revolt that has devastated Chaldea (modern Iraq) since 869.
- September 11 – Yazaman al-Khadim, Abbasid governor of Tarsus, routs a Byzantine army under general Kesta Styppiotes, in a night attack. According to Arab chroniclers, 70,000 out of 100,000 Byzantine troops are killed.[2]
Births
edit- Burchard II, duke of Swabia (or 884)
- Ibn Masarra, Muslim ascetic and scholar (d. 931)
- Zhao Jiliang, chancellor of Later Shu (d. 946)
- Zhao Tingyin, Chinese general (d. 949)
Deaths
edit- September 11 – Kesta Styppiotes, Byzantine general
- Ansegisus, archbishop of Sens (or 879)
- Anselm of Farfa, Frankish abbot (approximate date)
- Bertharius, Benedictine abbot and poet
- Bertulf, archbishop of Trier
- Dawud al-Zahiri, Muslim scholar (or 884)
- Eochocán mac Áedo, king of Ulaid (Ireland)
- Froila, Galician bishop
- Guy II, duke of Spoleto
- Han Jian, Chinese warlord
- Ignatius II, patriarch of Antioch
- Pi Rixiu, Chinese poet
- Wang Jingchong, Chinese governor (b. 847)
- Yang Fuguang, Chinese general (b. 842)
References
edit- ^ Italian History - Timeline, p. 9.
- ^ Fields, Philip M. (1987). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Vol. XXXVII: The ʻAbbāsid Recovery. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. pp. 143–144. ISBN 0-88706-053-6.