890

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century 9th century 10th century
Decades:	870s 880s 890s 900s 910s
Years:	887 888 889 890 891 892 893

890 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	890 DCCCXC
Ab urbe condita	1643
Armenian calendar	339 ԹՎ ՅԼԹ
Assyrian calendar	5640
Balinese saka calendar	811–812
Bengali calendar	297
Berber calendar	1840
Buddhist calendar	1434
Burmese calendar	252
Byzantine calendar	6398–6399
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3587 or 3380     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3588 or 3381
Coptic calendar	606–607
Discordian calendar	2056
Ethiopian calendar	882–883
Hebrew calendar	4650–4651
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	946–947
- Shaka Samvat	811–812
- Kali Yuga	3990–3991
Holocene calendar	10890
Iranian calendar	268–269
Islamic calendar	276–277
Japanese calendar	Kanpyō 2 (寛平２年)
Javanese calendar	788–789
Julian calendar	890 DCCCXC
Korean calendar	3223
Minguo calendar	1022 before ROC 民前1022年
Nanakshahi calendar	−578
Seleucid era	1201/1202 AG
Thai solar calendar	1432–1433
Tibetan calendar	阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1016 or 635 or −137     — to — 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 1017 or 636 or −136

Svatopluk I of Moravia with his three sons.

Year 890 (DCCCXC) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 890th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 890th year of the 1st millennium, the 90th year of the 9th century, and the 1st year of the 890s decade.

Events

By place

Europe

• The Frankish nobles, who have ruled Provence in anarchy (since 887), declare Louis the Blind (a son of the late usurper King Boso) ruler of Lower Burgundy, at an assembly at Valence.
• The sovereignty of Svatopluk I, ruler (knyaz) of Moravia, is confirmed in Bohemia. Lusatia becomes a part of his kingdom (approximate date).

Britain

• King Alfred the Great begins to commission and undertake a series of translations into Old English, beginning with his own version of Pope Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care.
• Lord Æthelred II and Lady Æthelflæd (a daughter of Alfred the Great) of the Mercians found the Priory of St. Oswald in Gloucester (probably originally dedicated to St. Peter).
• Ohthere of Hålogaland, a Norse Viking seafarer, narrates the story of his travels to Alfred the Great, who arranges for it to be written down.
• King Anarawd ap Rhodri of Gwynedd makes the first ceremonial visit to an English court (that of Alfred the Great).
• King Donald II of Scotland expels the British aristocracy of Strathclyde. They flee south to North Wales.
• The town of Kirby Muxloe (in modern-day Leicestershire) is founded in England (approximate date).

Births

• Arnulf I, count of Flanders (approximate date)
• Gilbert, duke of Lotharingia (or Lorraine) (approximate date)
• Gorm the Old, Danish Viking king (approximate date)
• Lady Ma, wife of Qian Yuanguan (d. 939)
• Marozia of the Rule of the Harlots, Roman noblewoman (approximate date)
• Motoyoshi, Japanese prince and nobleman (d. 943)
• Olaf Feilan, Icelandic priest and chieftain (approximate date)
• Olga of Kiev, princess and regent of Russia (approximate date)
• Reginar II, Frankish nobleman (d. 932)
• Rudolph, Frankish king (approximate date)
• Ulrich, bishop of Augsburg (approximate date)

Deaths

• February 12 – Henjō, Japanese waka poet (b. 816)
• August 5 – Ranulf II, duke of Aquitaine (b. 850)
• Arib al-Ma'muniyya (July/August) was the poet, singer of the Abbasid Court.
• Æthelhelm, king of Wessex (approximate date)
• Abu Hatim al-Razi, Muslim hadith scholar (b. 811)
• Anandavardhana, Indian philosopher (b. 820)
• Adalard, Frankish nobleman
• Aldalhard II, Frankish nobleman
• Ashot I (the Great), king of Armenia
• Askericus, archbishop of Paris (approximate date)
• Guthrum, Danish Viking king (approximate date)
• Land ingen Dúngaile, princess of Osraige