874

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	840s  850s  860s  – 870s –  880s  890s  900s
Years:	871 872 873 – 874 – 875 876 877

Year 874 (DCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Ingólfur Arnarson arrives as the first permanent Viking settler in Iceland. He settles in Reykjavík (probable date).
• The Danes invade Mercia.
• The territory of the Vistulans is conquered by King Svatopluk I of Great Moravia.
• November – Frost begins in Scotland and lasts until April 875.

Asia

• The rebellion of Huang Chao in China begins, weakening the strength of the already declining Tang Dynasty.

By topic

Religion

• March 13 – The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Apostles, Constantinople.

Births

• Meng Zhixiang

Deaths

• January 1 – Hasan al-Askari, 11th Shia Imam