Editing 870s

{{short description|Decade}}
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The '''870s''' decade ran from January 1, 870, to December 31, 879.

{{Events by year for decade|87}}

==Significant people==
* [[Alfred the Great]]
* [[Al-Mu'tamid]] 
* [[Al-Muwaffaq]]
* [[Harald I of Norway]]
* [[Rhodri Mawr ap Merfyn|Rhodri ''Mawr'' (the Great)]]
* [[Charles the Bald]]
* [[Rurik]]

{{Births and deaths by year for decade|87}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

===Sources===
* {{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=Roger |author-link1=Roger Collins |title=The Basques |date=1990 |publisher=Blackwell |isbn=978-0-631-17565-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ageHQgAACAAJ}}
* {{cite book |last1=Hill |first1=Paul |title=The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great |date=2009 |publisher=Pen & Sword History |isbn=978-1-59416-087-5}}
* {{cite web |title=Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts |url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/islamic_medical/islamic_12.html |access-date=8 November 2011 |ref={{harvid|Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts|2011}}}}
* {{cite book |last1=McKinney |first1=Robert C. |title=The Case of Rhyme Versus Reason: Ibn Al-Råumåi and His Poetics in Context |date=2004 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-13010-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kfjbp__dVNYC}}
* {{cite book |title=Sketches from Eastern History |last=Nöldeke |first=Theodor |author-link=Theodor Nöldeke |year=1892 |publisher=Adam and Charles Black |location=London and Edinburgh |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206950}}
* {{cite book |title=The Revolt of African Slaves in Iraq, in the 3rd/9th Century |last=Popovic |first=Alexandre |year=1999 |publisher=Markus Wiener Publishers |location=Princeton |isbn=1-55876-162-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=21NtAAAAMAAJ}}
* {{cite book |last=Rucquoi |first=Adeline |title=Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique |year=1993 |publisher=Seuil |location=Paris |isbn=2-02-012935-3 |page=85}}
* {{cite book |editor-last=Waines |editor-first=David |title=The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXXVI: The Revolt of the Zanj, A.D. 869–879/A.H. 255–265 |year=1992 |location=Albany, New York |publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=0-7914-0764-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ctgf6WSCPMC}}
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