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

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874 (DCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 874th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 874th year of the 1st millennium, the 74th year of the 9th century, and the 5th year of the 870s decade. As of the start of 874, the Gregorian calendar was 4 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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.

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

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  Ingólfr Arnarson arrives in Iceland (1850)