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Events, inventions and discoveries

Holy Roman Empire

12 August 875: Ludovico II died the Young.
25 December 875: Charles the Calvo, after crossing the Alps and obtaining the title of King of Italy, is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
6 October 876: Carlo il Calvo died. The title of Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire will go to Charles the Grosso in 881, while the title of King of Italy in Carlomanno of Bavaria.

West France

870 - Treaty of Meerssen: Charles the Calvo, king of France Occidentalis, and Ludovico the Germanic, king of France Orientalis, split France Media (together of Lotaringia and Provence). Carlo il Calvo goes the western part of France Media.
876: After the death of Charles the Calvo, Louis II of France became king of the Western Francs.
879: Louis II died of France. West France ends in the hands of the two sons, Carlomanno II and Luigi il Giovane, and his wife Adelaide, pregnant with the third son, Charles III of France.

France Oriental

870 - Treaty of Meerssen: Charles the Calvo, king of France Occidentalis, and Ludovico the Germanic, king of France Orientalis, split France Media (together of Lotaringia and Provence). In Ludovico the Germanic goes the eastern part of France Media.
876: The Germanic and East France died among his three sons: Carlomanno of Bavaria had, in fact, Bavaria and the title of King of the East Franks and King of Italy, Ludovico III the Young had Franconia, Saxony and Thuringia, and Carlo il Grosso l'Alemannia.
879: Carlomanno died and left his brother Carlo il Grosso the title of King of Italy, and in Ludovico III the Young Bavaria.

Europe

Roman Empire of the East

872 - Battle of Bathys Ryax: Basil I defeats the heretics Pauliciani.
872: Basil I reconquered, though for a short time, Cyprus.
875: Basilio I regains much of Puglia.
876: Basil I regains the hemirate of Bari.

British

870: The Danes join the Vikings and besiege Dumbarton, Scotland.
31 December 870 - Battle of Englefield: The Vikings collide with the Eldorman Æthelwulf of Berkshire. The invaders are forced to retire to Reading and many of the Danes are killed.
871 - Battle of Ashdown: The Saxon king Etelredo wins, while the Norman king Bagsec remains on the field.
879: Alfredo the Great definitively defeated the Norman Vikings.

Kingdom of Norway

872: Harald I unifies Norway under one crown.
874: The Vikings founded Reykjavik, colonizing Iceland for the first time.

Arab Empire

870 - Anarchy of Samarra: The rebel Salih ibn Wasif is captured and killed in the Samarra Abbasside by the troops of Musa ibn Bugha al-Kabir.
870: Sammara's anarchy ends with Al-Mu'tamid caliph.

Asia

China China China

876: Seiwa cedes the throne of Emperor to his son.

Other

Religion

872: John VIII becomes Pope.
872: John VII