778

Year 778 (DCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 778th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 778th year of the 1st millennium, the 78th year of the 8th century, and the 9th year of the 770s decade. The denomination 778 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
778 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar778
DCCLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita1531
Armenian calendar227
ԹՎ ՄԻԷ
Assyrian calendar5528
Balinese saka calendar699–700
Bengali calendar185
Berber calendar1728
Buddhist calendar1322
Burmese calendar140
Byzantine calendar6286–6287
Chinese calendar丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
3474 or 3414
     to 
戊午年 (Earth Horse)
3475 or 3415
Coptic calendar494–495
Discordian calendar1944
Ethiopian calendar770–771
Hebrew calendar4538–4539
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat834–835
 - Shaka Samvat699–700
 - Kali Yuga3878–3879
Holocene calendar10778
Iranian calendar156–157
Islamic calendar161–162
Japanese calendarHōki 9
(宝亀9年)
Javanese calendar673–674
Julian calendar778
DCCLXXVIII
Korean calendar3111
Minguo calendar1134 before ROC
民前1134年
Nanakshahi calendar−690
Seleucid era1089/1090 AG
Thai solar calendar1320–1321
Tibetan calendar阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
904 or 523 or −249
     to 
阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
905 or 524 or −248

Events

Arab Caliphate and Byzantine Empire

Silver dirham of Arab caliph al-Mahdi, minted at Baghdad in 778/9

Europe

Britain

  • Unrest in Northumbria leads to King Æthelred I ordering the execution of three of his dukes. This considerably weakens his position (approximate date).

Religion

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Deaths

References

  1. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
  2. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 17. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
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