Hannibal had anticipated the move and reinforced the defending army in Africa with 13, 850 Iberian heavy infantry, 870 Balearic slingers and 1200 Iberian cavalry.

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.

The Tahirid city of Herat was captured in 870 and his campaign in the Badghis region led to the capture of Kharidjites which later formed the Djash al-Shurat contingent in his army.

The Desert Road immediately north of Waiouru runs through the 870 km² army training area, which lies mainly to the east of the road.

Simon de Montfort led an army of 870 French Crusaders, along with a small contingent of knights brought by his ally, the viscount of Corbeil.

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.

By 870 the " Great Summer Army " arrived in England, led by a Viking leader called Bagsecg and his Five Earls.

Emigration from the East, totaling 870, 000 people between 1989 and 1992 alone, led to worse employment outcomes for the least-educated workers, for blue-collar workers, for men and for foreign nationals

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.

which led to Guerrero being voted the Gene Autry Trophy ( Team MVP ) by his teammates. Making his fifth MLB All-Star game appearance in July, he Led AL outfielders with 3, 024, 870 votes and was the first Angel outfielder to be a starter since Reggie Jackson in 1984.

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.

After taking over as coach for Lou Carnesecca in 1958, Curran has led Molloy basketball to over 870 wins and 5 city titles.

The Danish invasions of the ninth century led to the destruction of the double monasteries of Whitby, Barking, and Ely by 870.

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.

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.

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.

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

Many fundamental questions of craftsmanship versus mass production, the relationship of usefulness and beauty, the practical purpose of formal beauty in a commonplace object, and whether or not a single proper form could exist, were argued out among its 1, 870 members ( by 1914 ).

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

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.

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.

Thiele's chronology for the first kings of Judah contained an internal inconsistency that later scholars corrected by dating these kings one year earlier, so that Jehoshaphat's dates are taken as one year earlier in the present article: coregency beginning in 873 / 871, sole reign commencing in 871 / 870, and death in 849 / 848 BC.

Malta was occupied by the Fatimids, who exerted 220 years of linguistic influence, from 870 to 1090 CE.

The military forces of Mauritania are listed by the IISS Military Balance 2007 as comprising 15, 870 personnel with an additional 5, 000 paramilitaries.

Roerik of Dorestad reappeared in Frankish chronicles in 870, when his Friesland demesne was returned to him by Charles the Bald ; in 882 he is already mentioned as dead.

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 statement of the " Vita " that Methodius was made bishop in 870 and not raised to the dignity of an archbishop until 873 is contradicted by the brief of Pope John VIII, written in June 879, according to which Adrian consecrated him archbishop ; John includes in his jurisdiction not only Great Moravia and Pannonia, but Serbia as well.

Yugor, the easternmost state formed by the Yugur people, was the Ganzhou Kingdom ( AD 870 – 1036 ), with its capital near present-day Zhangye in the Gansu province of China.

Malta was occupied by the Fatimids, who exerted 220 years of influence ( from 870 to 1090 CE / AD ) on the existing civilization.

On the death of his nephew Lothair II in 869, Charles tried to seize Lothair's dominions, but by the Treaty of Mersen ( 870 ) was compelled to share them with Louis the German.

As Lothair II had died without heirs, his territory was divided by the 870 Treaty of Meerssen between East and West Francia and finally came under East Frankish rule as a whole by the 880 Treaty of Ribemont.

Photios was condemned by the Council of 869 – 870.

There were 6, 172 housing units at an average density of 870. 3 per square mile ( 336. 0 / km² ), of which 3, 902 ( 66. 6 %) were owner-occupied, and 1, 954 ( 33. 4 %) were occupied by renters.

Lothar II died in 869 with no legitimate heirs, and his Kingdom was divided between Charles the Bald and Louis the German in 870 by the Treaty of Meerssen.

870 King Edmund refused, Ivar the Boneless defeated and captured him at Hoxne and brutally sacrificed his heart to Odin in a so-called “ blood eagle ritual ”, in the process adding East Anglia to the area controlled by the invading Danes.

* Bagsecg, a Viking who invaded and pillaged in England in 870, but was killed in 871 at The Battle of Ashdown.

Before the introduction of firearms, bows or crossbows were often used — Saint Sebastian is usually depicted as executed by a squad of Roman auxiliary archers in around 288 AD ; King Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia, by some accounts, was tied to a tree and shot dead by Viking archers on 20 November 869 or 870 AD.

She afterwards founded a monastery at Ely, which was destroyed by Viking raiders in 870.

Legend claims it was built in a single night in 869 or 870 as a defence against Viking invaders.

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.

According to legend, Nico Ditch – which runs east – west from Ashton-under-Lyne to Stretford and passes through Gorton, Levenshulme, Burnage, Rusholme, Platt Field Park in Fallowfield, Withington, and Chorlton-cum-Hardy – is a defence against Viking invaders and was dug in 869 – 870.