History
879
General
Population: 226 Million*
- Food: Famine grips all nations of the world
- Religion: Pope and patriarch of Constantinople excommunicate each other
Russian Orthodox Chruch establishes 5508 BC as date of the creation of the world
- Deaths: Louis II the Stammerer of France, Rurik of Novgorod,
Rhodri Mawr first prince of all Wales
Africa
- Egypt: Ibn Tulun – oldest mosque in Cairo built
Asia
- General: Nepal independent from Tibet
Europe
- General: Kingdom of the Arelate under Count Boso
- England: Alfred of England defeats Vikings under Gudrum at Ethandune - treaty of Wedmore divides England between them
- France: End of Louis II the Stammerer of France
Louis III becomes king of N France and brother Carloman king of South
- Russia: Rurik of Novgorod dies and Oleg becomes prince of Kiev
Russian capital at Novgorod founded
- Wales: End of reign of Rhodri Mawr, first prince of all Wales, killed by Vikings