879
| Years | 
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| Millennium | 
| 1st millennium | 
| Centuries | 
| Decades | 
| Years | 
| 879 by topic | 
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| Leaders | 
| Categories | 
| 
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| Gregorian calendar | 879 DCCCLXXIX | 
| Ab urbe condita | 1632 | 
| Armenian calendar | 328 ԹՎ ՅԻԸ | 
| Assyrian calendar | 5629 | 
| Balinese saka calendar | 800–801 | 
| Bengali calendar | 285–286 | 
| Berber calendar | 1829 | 
| Buddhist calendar | 1423 | 
| Burmese calendar | 241 | 
| Byzantine calendar | 6387–6388 | 
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3576 or 3369 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3577 or 3370 | 
| Coptic calendar | 595–596 | 
| Discordian calendar | 2045 | 
| Ethiopian calendar | 871–872 | 
| Hebrew calendar | 4639–4640 | 
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 935–936 | 
| - Shaka Samvat | 800–801 | 
| - Kali Yuga | 3979–3980 | 
| Holocene calendar | 10879 | 
| Iranian calendar | 257–258 | 
| Islamic calendar | 265–266 | 
| Japanese calendar | Gangyō 3 (元慶3年) | 
| Javanese calendar | 777–778 | 
| Julian calendar | 879 DCCCLXXIX | 
| Korean calendar | 3212 | 
| Minguo calendar | 1033 before ROC 民前1033年 | 
| Nanakshahi calendar | −589 | 
| Seleucid era | 1190/1191 AG | 
| Thai solar calendar | 1421–1422 | 
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 1005 or 624 or −148 — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1006 or 625 or −147 | 
Year 879 (DCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.