List of state leaders in 879

This is a list of heads of state, government leaders, and other rulers in the year 879.

Africa

• Tulunid Egypt – Ahmad ibn Tulun (868–884)
• Ifriqiya – "Abu Ishaq" Ibrahim II ibn Ahmad (Aghlabids) (875–902)
• Sultanate of Morocco – Ali ibn Umar, known as "Ali II" (Idrisid dynasty) (874–883)
• Kingdom of Nekor – Said II ibn Salih (c.864-c.916)
• Tahert – Muhammad Abu'l-Yaqdan (Rustamid dynasty) Imam of Tahert (c.873-c.894)
• Barghawata – Yunus ibn Ilyas (Tarifid) (842–888)

Asia

• China (Tang dynasty) – Emperor Xizong (873–888)
• Pratihara Empire – Mihira Bhoja I (c. 836–886)
• Japan (Heian period) –
  • Monarch – Emperor Yōzei (876–884)
  • Regent (Sessho) – Fujiwara no Mototsune (876–884)
• Korea (North South States Period)
  • Balhae – Dae Hyeonseok (871–893)
  • Unified Silla – Heongang (875–886)

Europe

• First Bulgarian Empire – Boris I, Knyaz of Bulgaria (852–889)
• Byzantine Empire – Basil I the Macedonian (867–886)
• Caucasus
  • Principality of Iberia – David I (876–881)
  • Principality of Kakheti – Gabriel (861–881)
  • Tao-Klarjeti – Sumbat I (c. 870–889)
• Duchy of Croatia –
  1. Zdeslav (878–879)
  2. Branimir (878–892)
• England (Heptarchy) –
  • Danelaw – Guthrum, King of the Danish Vikings (c. 874–c. 890)
    • Kingdom of East Anglia –
      1. Aethelred (876–879)
      2. Guthrum (879–890)
    • Kingdom of Mercia – Ceolwulf II (874–c. 881)
    • Kingdom of Northumbria – Guthred (878–895)
  • Kingdom of Wessex – Alfred the Great (871–899)
• East Francia –
  • Duchy of Alsace – Hugh (867–885)
  • Kingdom of Bavaria – Carloman of Bavaria (876–880)
  • March of Pannonia – Aribo of Austria (871–909)
  • Kingdom of Saxony – Louis the Younger (876–882)
  • Duchy of Saxony – Bruno (866–880)
  • Kingdom of Swabia – Charles the Fat (876–887)
  • Duchy of Thuringia – Radulf II (874–880)
• West Francia –
  1. Louis the Stammerer (877–879)
  2. Louis III (879–882) and Carloman II (879–884)
  • County of Angoulême – Wulgrin I (866–886)
  • County of Auvergne – Bernard II (872–886)
  • County of Auxerre – Hugh the Abbot (876–886)
  • County of Barcelona – Wilfred the Hairy (878–897)
  • Duchy of Brittany – Two opposing claimants:
    • Judicael (876–888/889)
    • Alan I (876–907)
  • County of Flanders – Baldwin II (879–918)
  • County of Maine – Ragenold of Neustria (878–885)
  • March of Neustria – Ragenold (878–885)
  • County of Poitiers – Ranulf II of Aquitaine (877–890)
  • County of Toulouse – Bernard Plantapilosa (877–886)
  • County of Tours – Hugh the Abbot (866–886)
  • County of Troyes – Robert I (876–886)
  • County of Urgell – Wilfred the Hairy (870–897)
• Duchy of Gascony – Sans III Mitarra (864–893)
• Ireland -
  1. Áed Findliath, High King of Ireland (862–879)
  2. Flann Sinna, High King of Ireland (879–916)
  • Kingdom of Ailech –
    1. Áed Findliath (c. 855–879)
    2. Murchad mac Máele Dúin (879–887)
  • Kingdom of Connacht – Conchobar mac Taidg Mór (872–882)
  • Uí Maine –
  • Kingdom of Leinster –
  • Kingdom of Mide – Flann Sinna (877–916)
  • Kingdom of Munster – Dúnchad mac Duib-dá-Bairenn (872–888)
  • Kingdom of Osraige – Cerball mac Dúnlainge (842–888)
  • Kingdom of Ulaid – Ainbíth mac Áedo (873–882)
• Kingdom of Italy –
  1. Carloman of Bavaria (877–879)
  2. Charles the Fat (879–887)
  • Principality of Benevento – Guaifer (878–881)
  • County of Capua –
    1. Landulf II (863–879)
    2. Pandenulf (879–882)
  • March of Friuli – Berengar (874–890)
  • Duchy of Gaeta – Docibilis I, Hypatus of Gaeta (866–906)
  • Duchy of Naples – Athanasius (877–898)
  • Papal States – Pope John VIII (872–882)
  • Principality of Salerno – Guaifer (861–880)
  • Duchy of Spoleto – Lambert I (876–880)
  • March of Tuscany – Adalbert I (847–886)
  • Republic of Venice – Orso I Participazio, Doge of Venice (864–881)
• Great Moravia – Svatopluk I (870–894)
  • Duchy of Bohemia – Bořivoj I (c. 870–c. 889)
• Kingdom of Norway – Harald Fairhair (872–930)
• Novgorod –
  1. Rurik, Prince of Novgorod (862–879)
  2. Oleg, Prince of Novgorod (879–912)
• Kingdom of Provence – Boso (879–887)
• Scotland – Giric, King of the Picts (878–889), possibly together with Eochaid, King of the Picts (878–889)
• Principality of Serbia – Mutimir, Grand Župan (850–891)
• Spain –
  • County of Aragon – Aznar Galíndez II (867–893)
  • Kingdom of Asturias – Alfonso III (866–910)
    • County of Castile – Diego Rodríguez Porcelos (872–c. 885)
  • Emirate of Córdoba – Muhammad I (852–886)
  • County of Pallars – Raymond I (872–920)
  • Kingdom of Pamplona – García Íñiguez (851/852–882)
  • County of Ribagorza – Raymond I (872–920)
• Wales –
  • Kingdom of Gwynedd – Anarawd ap Rhodri (878–916)
  • Kingdom of Powys – Merfyn ap Rhodri (878–900)
  • Kingdom of Seisyllwg – Cadell ap Rhodri (878–909)

Middle East

• Abbasid Caliphate – Al-Mu'tamid (870–892)
• Byzantine Empire – Basil I (Βασίλειος Α') (867-886)
• Sistan –
  1. Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar (867–879)
  2. Amr ibn al-Layth (879–901)
• Samanid Empire – Nasr I (864–892)