776

Year 776 (DCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 776 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:
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776 by topic
Leaders
  • Political entities
  • State leaders
  • Religious leaders
Categories
  • Births
  • Deaths
  • Establishments
776 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar776
DCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita1529
Armenian calendar225
ԹՎ ՄԻԵ
Assyrian calendar5526
Balinese saka calendar697–698
Bengali calendar183
Berber calendar1726
Buddhist calendar1320
Burmese calendar138
Byzantine calendar6284–6285
Chinese calendar乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
3472 or 3412
    — to —
丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
3473 or 3413
Coptic calendar492–493
Discordian calendar1942
Ethiopian calendar768–769
Hebrew calendar4536–4537
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat832–833
 - Shaka Samvat697–698
 - Kali Yuga3876–3877
Holocene calendar10776
Iranian calendar154–155
Islamic calendar159–160
Japanese calendarHōki 7
(宝亀７年)
Javanese calendar671–672
Julian calendar776
DCCLXXVI
Korean calendar3109
Minguo calendar1136 before ROC
民前1136年
Nanakshahi calendar−692
Seleucid era1087/1088 AG
Thai solar calendar1318–1319
Tibetan calendar阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
902 or 521 or −251
    — to —
阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
903 or 522 or −250
Ruins of Castle Syburg (near Dortmund)

Events

Byzantine Empire
  • April 24 – Emperor Leo IV ("the Khazar") appoints his 5-year-old son Constantine VI co-ruler of the Byzantine Empire. This leads to an uprising, led by one of Leo's half-brothers, Caesar Nikephoros, the second son of former emperor Constantine V. The revolt is quickly suppressed. Fortunately for Nikephoros, his only punishment is to be stripped of his titles, while the rest of the conspirators are blinded, tonsured, and exiled to Cherson (Southern Crimea) under guard.[1][2]


Europe
  • King Charlemagne spends Easter in Treviso (Northern Italy), after putting down a rebellion in Friuli and Spoleto. He removes Hrodgaud of Friuli from power, and reforms the duchy as the March of Friuli (military frontier district).[3] Co-conspirators who support the revolt are Arechis II, duke of Benevento, and Adalgis, son of former Lombard king Desiderius. Frankish counts are placed in the cities of Friuli.
  • Saxon Wars: The Saxons again revolt against Christianity and Frankish rule. Eresburg falls, but a Saxon assault upon the castle of Syburg fails. Charlemagne hurriedly returns from Italy, launching a counter-offensive which defeats the Saxons. Most of their leaders are summoned to the Lippe at the town of Bad Lippspringe (North Rhine-Westphalia), to submit formally to Charlemagne.[4]

Britain
  • Battle of Otford: King Egbert II of Kent defeats the Mercians under King Offa (near Otford), and re-asserts himself as ruler of Kent.

Births
  • February – Al-Jahiz, Afro-Muslim scholar and writer (d. 868)[5][6]
  • date unknown – Lu Sui, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 835)[7][8]
  • probable
    • Saint George the Standard-Bearer, archbishop (d. 821)[9]
    • Bai Xingjian, Chinese poet and writer (d. 826)[10]
    • Sahnun ibn Sa'id, Muslim jurist (or 777)
    • Tahir ibn Husayn, Muslim governor (or 775)

Deaths
  • date unknown
    • Cellach mac Dúnchada, king of Leinster (Ireland)[11]
    • Cináed Ciarrge mac Cathussaig, Dál nAraide king[11]
    • Flaithniadh mac Congal, abbot of Clonfert
    • Hrodgaud, duke of Friuli (Italy)[12]
    • Humayd ibn Qahtaba, Muslim military leader
    • Nuada ua Bolcain, abbot of Tuam (Ireland)

References
  1. The Chronicle of Theophanes Anni Mundi 6095–6305 (A.D. 602–813): Tr. Harry Turtledove (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), p. 137
  2. Treadgold, Warren. A History of the Byzantine State and Society.
  3. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 15. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
  4. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
  5. Al-Jahiz messages, Alwarraq edition, page 188; Yāqūt, Irshād al-arīb ilá ma`rifat al-adīb, ed. Iḥsān `Abbās, 7 vols (Beirut: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī, 1993), 5:2102.
  6. Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam. Chuo cha Uchunguzi wa Lugha ya Kiswahili (1974). Kiswahili. East African Swahili Committee. p. 16.; Yāqūt, Irshād al-arīb ilá ma`rifat al-adīb, ed. Iḥsān `Abbās, 7 vols (Beirut: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī, 1993), 5:2102.
  7. Academia Sinica Chinese-Western Calendar Converter. Archived 2010-05-22 at the Wayback Machine
  8. Old Book of Tang, vol. 17, part 2.
  9. St. George the Confessor the Bishop of Mytilene. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  10. Tony Barnstone; Ping Chou (2007). Chinese Erotic Poems. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-307-26567-8.
  11. Kevin Murray (2004). Baile in scáil. Irish Texts Society. p. 164. ISBN 978-1-870166-58-4.
  12. Ludo Moritz Hartmann: Geschichte Italiens im Mittelalter Bd. II Teil 2, Perthes, Gotha 1903, S. 282ff
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