Events
- Nine battles are fought between the Danes and Wessex. Of two of them the place and date are not recorded, the others were Englesfield (31 December 870), Reading (4 January), Ashdown (8 January), Basing (22 January), Merton (22 March), Wilton (May).
- Alfred the Great succeeds as king of Wessex after Ethelred's death.
- Reading, England occupied by the Norse.
- After the battle at Wilton, peace is made, with the Danes and Alfred each governing part of England.
- Rhodri the Great inherits Seisyllwig, thus uniting most of Wales under his rule
- Louis II captures Ban, the headquarters of the Saracens.
- Alfred makes Winchester to his capital.
- An incomplete marriage contract, dated to October 6 of this year, is the earliest dated document in the Cairo Geniza.
- Foundation of Tønsberg, the oldest surviving town in Norway
- Svatopluk becomes prince of Great Moravia
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ca:871
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hr:871
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pl:871
pt:871
ro:871
ru:871
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fi:871
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