History
870
General
Population: 226 Million*
- Entertainment: First musical manuscript with Latin letters
- Science: Erigena compiles encyclopedia of nature
Technology: Calibrated candles used in England to measure time
- Deaths: German theologian Gottschalk, Arabian philosopher and mathematician Al-Kindi
Europe
- England: Danes occupy Essex and East Anglia and kill St. Edmund the last king and destroy Peterborough Monastery
All English kingdoms overrun with Danish Northmen except Wessex
- France: Partition of Lorraine with treaty of Mersen between Charles the Bald and Louis II