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AD 888

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Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
888 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar888
DCCCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita1641
Armenian calendar337
ԹՎ ՅԼԷ
Assyrian calendar5638
Balinese saka calendar809–810
Bengali calendar295
Berber calendar1838
Buddhist calendar1432
Burmese calendar250
Byzantine calendar6396–6397
Chinese calendar丁未年 (Fire Goat)
3585 or 3378
    — to —
戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
3586 or 3379
Coptic calendar604–605
Discordian calendar2054
Ethiopian calendar880–881
Hebrew calendar4648–4649
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat944–945
 - Shaka Samvat809–810
 - Kali Yuga3988–3989
Holocene calendar10888
Iranian calendar266–267
Islamic calendar274–275
Japanese calendarNinna 4
(仁和4年)
Javanese calendar786–787
Julian calendar888
DCCCLXXXVIII
Korean calendar3221
Minguo calendar1024 before ROC
民前1024年
Nanakshahi calendar−580
Seleucid era1199/1200 AG
Thai solar calendar1430–1431
Tibetan calendar阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
1014 or 633 or −139
    — to —
阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
1015 or 634 or −138
Coronation of Odo of France (888–898)

Year 888 (DCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

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Europe

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  • Lord Æthelred II of the Mercians is struck down with a debilitating illness. His wife, Princess Æthelflæd (a daughter of Alfred the Great) of Wessex, joins him as joint ruler of Mercia (approximate date).
  • The Aghlabids issue decrees according to which Jews and Christians are to wear a patch (ruq'a) of white fabric on their shoulder of their outer garment, with the patch for Jews depicting an ape and that for the Christians depicting a pig.[2][3]

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References

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  1. ^ Gwatking, H. M., Whitney, J. P., et al. Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III–Germany and the Western Empire. Cambridge University Press: London (1930).
  2. ^ Stillman, Norman (June 8, 2022). Arab Dress, A Short History: From the Dawn of Islam to Modern Times. BRILL. p. 105. ISBN 978-90-04-49162-5. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
  3. ^ Simonsohn, Šelomō (1997). The Jews in Sicily: 383-1300. BRILL. p. xxiv. ISBN 978-90-04-10977-3. Retrieved October 3, 2024.