In 870 an army led by the Viking chiefs known in Irish as Amlaíb Conung and Ímar laid siege to Alt Clut, a siege which lasted some four months and led to the destruction of the citadel and the taking of a very large number of captives.

In 870 Dumbarton was besieged by Amlaíb Conung and Ímar, " the two kings of the Northmen ", who " returned to Dublin from Britain " the following year with numerous captives.

By 870, the northmen had conquered the kingdoms of Deira and East Anglia, and in 871 they attacked Wessex.

According to the Italian media, documents from the archives of the Libyan secret service passed on to Human Rights Watch after the fall of Tripoli, show that Flight 870 and the Libyan MIG were attacked by two French jets.

Syracuse was attacked again in 869, and in 870, Malta fell to the Aghlabids.

After the sack of Dumbarton Rock by a Viking army from Dublin in 870, the name Strathclyde comes into use, perhaps reflecting a move of the centre of the kingdom to Govan.

Looking north at Dumbarton Rock chief fort of Strathclyde from the 6th century to 870.

By 870, Dumbarton Rock was home to a tightly packed British settlement, which served as a fortress and as the capital of Alt Clut.

Methodius now continued the work among the Slavs alone ; not at first in Great Moravia, but in Pannonia ( in the Balaton Principality ), owing to the political circumstances of the former country, where Rastislav had been taken captive by his nephew Svatopluk, then delivered over to Carloman, and condemned in a diet of the empire at the end of 870.

The 1897 introduced a " take down " design, where the barrel could be taken off ; a standard in pump shotguns made today, like the Remington 870 and Mossberg 500 series.

White received 1, 697, 870 votes ( 53. 2 percent ) to Clements ' 1, 465, 537 ( 45. 9 percent ) in a year where Texas Democrats swept all the statewide offices being led by U. S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen ( who won a third six-year term to the Senate ) and the legendary Lieutenant Governor of Texas William P. Hobby Jr. ( Hobby was first elected lieutenant governor in 1972 ) both of whom carried the Democratic Party's statewide banner which also included the elections of Jim Mattox as state attorney general, Bob Bullock, who won his third term as Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts-having been elected in 1974, Ann Richards as state treasurer, Garry Mauro as Commissioner of the General Land Office, and Jim Hightower as Texas Commissioner of Agriculture while Democrats easily maintained their majorities in both houses of the Texas Legislature.

It is found, for instance, in the 1964 edition of the Annuario Pontificio, pp. 807 – 870, where the heading is " States of Perfection ( of pontifical right for men )".

* Galindo Íñiguez, fled to Córdoba where he was friend of Eulogio of Córdoba and became father of Musa ibn Galind, Amil of Huesca in 860, assassinated in 870

The first documentary evidence of this attack dates from the 14th century writings of Matthew Paris where he gives the year of the attack as 870.

In 2005, Atroshchenko took part in the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain, Europe, where she won the bronze medal in heptathlon with 5, 870 points.

On 4 June the new British commander, Lieutenant-General Duncan Cameron, led 870 members of the 57th Regiment and 70th Regiment to attack and defeat a party of about 50 Māori still occupying the Tataraimaka block beside the Katikara River.

The Pend Oreille River, which drains the lake to the Columbia, is sometimes included as part of the Clark Fork, giving it a total length of 479 mi ( 771 km ), with a drainage area of 25, 820 sq mi ( 66, 870 km² ).

Porter-Gaud has an enrollment of some 870 students in grades 1 – 12 and located on the banks of the Ashley River.

Wood set a new world record speed for a boat, ( 74. 870 mph ) in 1920 on the Detroit River, using a new boat called Miss America.

Located in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region on the west bank of the Omo River, the park covers approximately 4, 068 square kilometers, about 870 kilometers southwest of Addis Ababa ; across the Omo is the Mago National Park.

The wilderness consists of 101, 870 acres ( 412 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) on the east side of the continental divide in the Wind River Range.

Sometimes a special part of the mosque was railed off for women ; for example, the governor of Mecca in 870 had ropes tied between the columns to make a separate place for women.

Today the city of Varna has a population of 334 870 which makes it the third largest city in Bulgaria, but the Municipality of Varna takes the second place with population of 343 704.

Cook won the seat with a majority of 1, 870 with Rodgers finishing in third place behind the Conservative candidate.

The initial settlement of Iceland largely took place during the Viking Age between 870 and 930, but Landnámabók definitely mentions descendants significantly later than the actual settlement period, at least into the 11th century.

In the 1970s, the Icelandic historian Ólafia Einarsdóttir concluded that the battle took place somewhere between 870 and 875.

Alexandria's objections to Constantinople's promotion, which led to a constant struggle between the two sees in the first half of the 5th century, were supported, at least until the Fourth Council of Constantinople of 869 – 870, by Rome, which proposed the theory that the most important sees were the three Petrine ones, with Rome in first place.

At the 2008 World Series of Poker Gerasimov made two final tables, 5th in the $ 5, 000 Pot-Limit Omaha w / Rebuys, earning $ 192, 870 won by Phil Galfond and 6th in the $ 2, 000 No Limit Hold ' em event, earning $ 177, 111 and he slightly bested his 2005 Main Event run ( 444th place ) when he finished in 439th place out of 6844 entries, earning $ 27, 020.

After their Khanate was destroyed by the Sassanids and Turks in 565, Bamyan became the capital of the small Kushano-Hephthalite kingdom until 870, when it was conquered by the Saffarids.

According to the 870 Treaty of Meerssen and the 880 Treaty of Ribemont, the Lotharingian kingdom of former Middle Francia had fallen to the East Frankish realm.

Frankish expansion from the early Clovis I ' kingdom ( 481 ) to the divisions of Carolingian Empire | Charlemagne's Empire ( 843 / 870 ).

When the son of his brother Lothair, Lothair II of Lotharingia died in 869, he also received large parts of his kingdom ( Lotharii ) west of the Rhine by the 870 Treaty of Meerssen.

Sthanu Ravi Varman also gifted land for lighting lamp at the temple at Kuttalam in Pandya kingdom in 870 AD.

The traditional death date of García Íñiguez in 870 would have meant there was a de facto 10-year interregnum before the return of Fortún to the kingdom.

The lack of subsequent mention of him after 870 led to the suggestion that he died in that year, and as his heir was in the hands of his enemies, it was argued that García Jiménez then governed the kingdom as regent.

In 870, it was decided that the realm should be a duchy within the kingdom of East Francia.

The lost Irish epic Orgain Sratha Cluada is usually thought to refer to the attack on Alt Clut in 870 by Vikings, but MacQuarrie suggests that it may refer to an attack by Áedán on Rhydderch.

However, at the end of 870, the Danes arrived in his homeland.

In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.

870 was the low-water mark in the history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

The first universally accepted inscription containing the use of the 0 glyph is first recorded in the 9th century, in an inscription at Gwalior in Central India dated to 870.

The Islamic conquest of Afghanistan ( 642 – 870 ) began in the middle of the 7th century after the Islamic conquest of Persia was completed, when Arab Muslims defeated the Sassanid Empire at the battles of Walaja, al-Qādisiyyah and Nahavand.

It was not until 870 that Kabul and the Afghan area was brought under control by the Saffarids.

Earlier in 870, Yaqub bin Laith as-Saffar, a local ruler from the Saffarid dynasty of Zaranj, Afghanistan, conquered most of present-day Afghanistan in the name of Islam.

In 870, Ya ' qub-i Laith Saffari, a local Persian ruler from the Saffarid dynasty of Zaranj, Afghanistan, conquered most of the cities of present-day Afghanistan in the name of Islam.

By 1920, it was 47. 946 ; by 1925 it was 63. 870 and in 1935 that had ballooned to 103. 030.

Then, in the time of Pope Gregory VII ( 1073 – 1085 ), canonists who in the Investiture Controversy quoted the prohibition in canon 22 of the Council of Constantinople of 869 – 870 against laymen influencing the appointment of prelates elevated this council to the rank of ecumenical council.

Fourth Council of Constantinople ( 869 – 870 ) deposed Patriarch Photios I of Constantinople as an usurper and reinstated his predecessor Saint Ignatius.

* 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.

Photios was condemned by a Council held at Constantinople from from October 5, 869 to February 28, 870 and accepted as an Ecumenical Council at the time.

Francis Dvornik argues that Pope accepted the acts of the council and annulled those of the Council of 869 – 870.

On 8 March 870, three days after the end of the counsel the Papal and Eastern delegates met with the Bulgarian ambassadors led by the kavhan Peter to decide the status of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

Hunayn translated ( c. 830 – 870 ) 129 works of " Jalinos " into Arabic.

Fighting among Charlemagne's grandchildren caused the Carolingian empire to be partitioned into several parts by the Treaty of Verdun ( 843 ), the Treaty of Meerssen ( 870 ), and the Treaty of Ribemont.

In 870 AD, Yaqub ibn Layth Saffari, a local ruler of the Saffarid dynasty conquered Herat and the rest of the nearby regions in the name of Islam.

* 1980 – Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while in route from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 on board.

* 918 – Æthelflæd, Mercian daughter of Alfred the Great ( b. 870 )