788
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century · 8th century · 9th century |
| Decades: | 750s · 760s · 770s · 780s · 790s · 800s · 810s |
| Years: | 785 · 786 · 787 · 788 · 789 · 790 · 791 |
| 788 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 788 DCCLXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1541 |
| Armenian calendar | 237 ԹՎ ՄԼԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5538 |
| Bengali calendar | 195 |
| Berber calendar | 1738 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1332 |
| Burmese calendar | 150 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6296–6297 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3484 or 3424 — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3485 or 3425 |
| Coptic calendar | 504–505 |
| Discordian calendar | 1954 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 780–781 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4548–4549 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 844–845 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 709–710 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3888–3889 |
| Holocene calendar | 10788 |
| Iranian calendar | 166–167 |
| Islamic calendar | 171–172 |
| Japanese calendar | Enryaku 7 (延暦７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 683–684 |
| Julian calendar | 788 DCCLXXXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3121 |
| Minguo calendar | 1124 before ROC 民前1124年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −680 |
| Seleucid era | 1099/1100 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1330–1331 |
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Ōnakatomi no Kiyomaro (702–788)
Year 788 (DCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 788 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- September – Battle of Kopidnadon: A Abbasid expeditionary force crosses the Cilician Gates into the Anatolic Theme (modern Turkey).[1] It is confronted by two Byzantine armies at Podandos in Cappadocia who are defeated.
- Byzantine troops led by Adalgis, son of former Lombard king Desiderius, invade in southern Italy. His attempts are thwarted by the Franks who attack territories in Benevento, obtaining notably the annexion of Chieti (Spoleto).
Europe
- King Charlemagne conquers Bavaria and incorporates it into the Frankish Kingdom. Duke Tassilo III is deposed and banished to a monastery.
- Grimoald III, Lombard duke of Benevento, is installed as semi-client by king Charles the Younger (son of Charlemagne) at Benevento (Italy).
- The Avars who are allied with Tassilo III invade East Francia (modern Germany). This forms the earlier stage of a Frankish-Avar conflict.
- King Mauregatus of Asturias dies after a 5-year reign and is succeeded by Bermudo I as ruler of Asturias (modern Spain).
Britain
- King Ælfwald I of Northumbria is murdered, probably at Chesters, by the patricius (ealdorman) Sicga. He is succeeded by his cousin Osred II.
Arabian Empire
- Abd al-Rahman I, emir of Córdoba, dies after a 32-year reign and is succeeded by his son Hisham I.
By topic
Religion
- Start of the period covered in Adam of Bremen's historical treatise of the Archbishopric of Hamburg.
- Founding of Enryaku-ji temple complex by Saichō, a Buddhist monk, on Mount Hiei in Ōtsu (Japan).
Births
- Abu Tammam, Muslim poet (d. 845)
- Adi Shankara, Indian philosopher and theologian (d. 832)
- Aejang, king of Silla (Korea) (d. 809)
- Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar, Muslim historian (d. 870)
- Ida of Herzfeld, Frankish noblewoman (approximate date)
- Li Zaiyi, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 837)
- Methodios I, patriarch of Constantinople (or 800)
Deaths
- Abd al-Rahman I, Muslim emir of Córdoba (b. 731)
- Adalgis, king and co-regent of the Lombards
- Ælfwald I, king of Northumbria
- Hnabi, duke of the Alemanni (approximate date)
- Mauregatus, king of Asturias (or 789)
- Mazu Daoyi, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (b. 709)
- Ōnakatomi no Kiyomaro, Japanese nobleman (b. 702)
References
- ↑ Treadgold 1988, p. 91.
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