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Asia

• The Zanj
  Zanj
  
  Zanj was a name used by medieval Geography in medieval Islam to refer to both a certain portion of the East African coast and its inhabitants....
   (Black slaves from East Africa
  East Africa
  
  East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN subregion, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
  ), provoked by mercilessly harsh labor conditions in the salt flats and on the sugar and cotton plantations of southwestern Persia, revolt.

Europe

• Western Emperor Louis II
  Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor
  
  Louis II the Younger was the King of Italy from 844 and then Holy Roman Emperor from 855 until his death.He was the eldest son of the Emperor Lothair I and Ermengarde of Tours....
   allies with eastern Emperor Basil I
  Basil I
  
  Basil I, called the Macedonian was a Byzantine Empire. He was perceived by Byzantines as one of their greatest emperors, the founder of one the most splendid imperial dynasties of Byzantium, the Macedonian dynasty , and the initiator of a Macedonian Renaissance of Byzantine art....
   against the Saracens.
• Charles the Bald
  Charles the Bald
  
  File:Charles le Chauve denier Bourges after 848.jpgCharles the Bald , Holy Roman Emperor and King of West Francia , was the youngest son of the Emperor Louis the Pious by his second wife Judith, daughter of Welf....
   tries to take the kingdom of Lothair II of Lotharingia
  Lothair II of Lotharingia
  
  Lothair II , was the second son of Emperor Lothair I and Ermengarde of Tours. He was married to Teutberga, daughter of Boso the ElderUpon his father's death in 855, he received as his kingdom a territory west of the Rhine stretching from the North Sea to the Jura mountains....
   after the latter's death, but is resisted by Louis the German
  Louis the German
  
  Louis the German , was a grandson of Charlemagne and the third son of the succeeding Holy Roman Emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye....
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Religion

• The Fourth Council of Constantinople
  Fourth Council of Constantinople
  
  The Fourth Council of Constantinople of 879-880 is the Eighth Ecumenical Council for Eastern Orthodox Christians. Photios I of Constantinople, a noble layman, had been appointed Patriarch of Constantinople but deposed by a Fourth Council of Constantinople called in 869 by Emperor Basil I the Macedonian and Pope Adrian II....
   (5 October 869–28 February 870) is called to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople.

Births

• Emperor Yozei
  Emperor Yozei
  
  Emperor Yozei was the 57th Emperor of Japan of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the eyrs from 876 through 884....
   of Japan
  Japan
  
  Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  

Deaths

• February 4 — Saint Cyril
• August 8 — Lothair II of Lotharingia
  Lothair II of Lotharingia
  
  Lothair II , was the second son of Emperor Lothair I and Ermengarde of Tours. He was married to Teutberga, daughter of Boso the ElderUpon his father's death in 855, he received as his kingdom a territory west of the Rhine stretching from the North Sea to the Jura mountains....
  
• Yu Xuanji
  Yu Xuanji
  
  Yu Xuanji , courtesy names Youwei and Huilan , was a China List of Chinese language poets born in Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty....