World map in AD 878 — territory by country

Frame AD 878 — world borders from AD 878 to AD 879. 100 countries have territory in this frame, and the largest is Abbasid Caliphate (≈ 4.95 million km²).

Countries with territory in this frame (100, largest first)

Map of this frame (only countries over 400,000 km², simplified)

New countries in this frame (3)

Danelaw · Seisyllwg · Kingdom of Powys

Directions of expansion (1)

These are cases where one country’s land grew into another country’s former land (not actual routes of advance).

• Tulunids → former land of Abbasid Caliphate, ≈ 271 thousand km²

The world in AD 878

32 events from the sources that fall in this frame, grouped by region.

China (14)

• AD 878 — Li Keyong, garrison commander of Yunzhong, killed Duan Wenchu, defense commissioner of the Datong Army (the rise of the Shatuo Li Keyong). (New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals 新唐書 卷009 懿宗·僖宗 乾符5年2月)
• AD 878 — Huang Chao captured Fuzhou. (New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals 新唐書 卷009 懿宗·僖宗 乾符5年12月)
• AD 878 — Zeng Yuanyu defeats Wang Xianzhi badly at Huangmei, killing over fifty thousand men and executing Xianzhi. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑 卷253)
• AD 878 — Shang Rang leads the remnants of Wang Xianzhi's forces and submits to Huang Chao, who is made Generalissimo of Chongtian and given the era name Wangba. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑 卷253)
• AD 878 — Huang Chao crosses the river and takes the prefectures of Qianzhou, Jizhou, Raozhou and Xinzhou. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑 卷253)
• AD 878 — The Shatuo attack Kelan Commandery and take the Luocheng walls. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑 卷253)
• AD 878 — Huang Chao invades Xuanzhou; Wang Ning, defending at Nanling, is defeated. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑 卷253)
• AD 878 — Huang Chao takes Fuzhou; Circuit Commissioner Wei Xiu abandons the city and flees. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑 卷253)
• AD 879 — Huang Chao took Guangzhou and greatly plundered the towns of Lingnan. (Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals 舊唐書 卷19下 乾符6年 5月)
• AD 879 — Huang Chao captured Guangzhou, took prisoner the Lingnan East military governor Li Tiao, and ravaged as far as Annam. (New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals 新唐書 卷009 懿宗·僖宗 乾符6年5月)

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Japan (9)

• AD 878 — On the twenty-ninth day of the third month, the governor of Dewa, Fujiwara no Okiyo, reports by post horse that the barbarians (ifu) rebelled and on the fifteenth day of the third month burned Tsuiden castle, the district office and nearby houses (the Genkei War). By imperial edict, districts are chosen to block the key points, and if that is insufficient, aid is requested from the six provinces of Mutsu. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第卅三 元慶2年3月廿九日 (원문 33.76))
• AD 878 — The governor of Dewa reports that the bandits grow fiercer: six hundred men were sent to guard the Yadai pass, but at Yakiyama they met more than a thousand enemies, over five hundred fled, and the villages around the castle were burned. By imperial edict, one thousand soldiers each are sent from Kōzuke and Shimotsuke, and Mutsu is to send aid as well. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第卅三 元慶2年廿八日 (원문 33.108))
• AD 878 — On the fifth day of the fifth month, the governor of Mutsu, Minamoto no Yasushi, reports that he sent 2,000 men to Dewa and was asked for 500 more; because the barbarians of his own province are restless, he requests 2,000 reinforcements. By imperial edict, out of concern about wasting provisions, he is instead to reduce labor as an expedient measure. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第卅三 元慶2年5月五日 (원문 33.118))
• AD 878 — On the tenth day of the seventh month, Fujiwara no Yasunori, acting governor of Dewa and Right Middle Secretary, arrives and draws up military plans: about 600 soldiers from Kōzuke are stationed south of the Tsuiden River to block the northern enemy, and he reports separately twelve enemy villages and three villages that have submitted. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第卅四 元慶2年7月十日 (원문 34.10))
• AD 878 — On the night of the twenty-ninth day of the ninth month, a great earthquake strikes many provinces of the Kantō and the ground splits. Sagami and Musashi suffer the most: almost no buildings are left intact, the crushed dead cannot be counted, and the shaking lasts five or six days. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第卅四 元慶2年9月廿九日 (원문 34.80))
• AD 878 — On the twelfth day of the tenth month, Dewa province reports that on the twenty-ninth day of the eighth month more than three hundred rebels came below the castle and asked to surrender. Sakanoue no Yoshikage, acting vice-governor of Mutsu, arrives with 2,000 soldiers; the Chinju-shōgun Ono no Harukaze and 470 others reach the north of Tsuiei (the Akita camp). (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第卅四 元慶2年10月十二日 (원문 34.93))
• AD 879 — On the second day of the third month a memorial is submitted: on the thirteenth day of the first month an attack was to be launched by imperial command, but with 1,800-odd troops (800 each from Kōzuke and Shimotsuke, 200 from Mutsu) it is difficult to advance or retreat. The rebels submitted a petition of more than ten articles; as their grievances have reason, the penalties are relaxed and they are pacified. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第卅五 元慶3年3月 (원문 35.56))
• AD 879 — On the thirteenth day of the third month, Tango province reports that a foreign ship six jō long and one and a half jō wide drifted ashore at Takeno district, but it was completely broken and had no equipment. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第卅五 元慶3年3月十三日 (원문 35.64))
• AD 879 — On the eighth day of the tenth month the Daigyokuden is completed. The Minister of the Right holds a completion feast (kinrakuen, 釁落) in the Kanchō Hall of the Chōtō-in and entertains the officials and craftsmen who worked on the building, including the sawi and the carpenter Hitan. (Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku 卷第卅六 元慶3年10月八日 (원문 36.76))

West Asia (6)

• AD 879 — The sultan's generals and Ali ibn Aban (the Zanj) fight at Ahwaz (Al-Tabari, History of the Prophets and Kings Series III tom.4 (Arg.) [india.history.resource.86990], Annus 266)
• AD 879 — Al-Kuzistani enters Nishapur (Al-Tabari, History of the Prophets and Kings Series III tom.4 (Arg.) [india.history.resource.86990], Annus 266)
• AD 879 — Ishaq ibn Kundajiq takes Nisibis (Al-Tabari, History of the Prophets and Kings Series III tom.4 (Arg.) [india.history.resource.86990], Annus 266)
• AD 879 — Arab nomads plunder the covering of the Kaaba (Al-Tabari, History of the Prophets and Kings Series III tom.4 (Arg.) [india.history.resource.86990], Annus 266)
• AD 879 — Al-Muwaffaq leaves Baghdad to suppress the Zanj (Al-Tabari, History of the Prophets and Kings Series III tom.4 (Arg.) [india.history.resource.86990], Annus 266~268 사이 (표제 없음))
• AD 879 — Start of the siege of al-Mukhtara, the Zanj leader's city (Al-Tabari, History of the Prophets and Kings Series III tom.4 (Arg.) [india.history.resource.86990], Annus 266~268 사이 (표제 없음))

Western Europe (3)

• AD 878 — In midwinter the Danish army attacked Chippenham and overran Wessex; only Alfred, with a small company, escaped into the marsh forests. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Giles/Ingram 1847 A.D. 878 항 (pg657.txt 줄 2870))
• AD 879 — The army went from Chippenham to Cirencester and stayed there a year. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Giles/Ingram 1847 A.D. 879 항 (pg657.txt 줄 2901))
• AD 879 — A band of pirates gathered at Fulham on the banks of the Thames and stayed there. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Giles/Ingram 1847 A.D. 879 항 (pg657.txt 줄 2901))

Changes of power ◆

• ◆ AD 878 — Tulunids takes 270,500 km² of former Abbasid Caliphate land
• ◆ AD 878 — Abbasid Caliphate loses 270,500 km² to Tulunids

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