875

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	840s  850s  860s  – 870s –  880s  890s  900s
Years:	872 873 874 – 875 – 876 877 878

Year 875 (DCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• December 29 – Charles the Bald, king of West Francia, is crowned emperor.
• The Danes capture Lindisfarne and arrive in Cambridge.
• Harald Fairhair subdues the rovers on Orkney and Shetland and adds them to his kingdom.

Asia

• In Champa, in the central region of what is now Vietnam, King Indravarman II founds a new dynasty at Indrapura (Quang Nam). He starts a building program featuring the Dong Duong Style of Cham art.

Africa

• The construction of Mosque of Uqba, Kairouan, Tunisia, is ended.

Births

• Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Nishapuri Islamic writer

Deaths

• August 12 – Louis II, Western Emperor
• Amram Gaon, Jewish liturgist
• Abu Muslim, Persian hadith compiler