783

Year 783 (DCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 783 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:
783 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar783
DCCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita1536
Armenian calendar232
ԹՎ ՄԼԲ
Assyrian calendar5533
Balinese saka calendar704–705
Bengali calendar190
Berber calendar1733
Buddhist calendar1327
Burmese calendar145
Byzantine calendar6291–6292
Chinese calendar壬戌年 (Water Dog)
3479 or 3419
     to 
癸亥年 (Water Pig)
3480 or 3420
Coptic calendar499–500
Discordian calendar1949
Ethiopian calendar775–776
Hebrew calendar4543–4544
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat839–840
 - Shaka Samvat704–705
 - Kali Yuga3883–3884
Holocene calendar10783
Iranian calendar161–162
Islamic calendar166–167
Japanese calendarEnryaku 2
(延暦2年)
Javanese calendar678–679
Julian calendar783
DCCLXXXIII
Korean calendar3116
Minguo calendar1129 before ROC
民前1129年
Nanakshahi calendar−685
Seleucid era1094/1095 AG
Thai solar calendar1325–1326
Tibetan calendar阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
909 or 528 or −244
     to 
阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
910 or 529 or −243
Mauregatus of Asturias (783–788)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • A Byzantine expeditionary force under Staurakios, chief minister (logothete), begins a campaign against the communities (Sclaviniae) of Greece. Setting out from Constantinople, the imperial army follows the Thracian coast into Macedonia, and then south into Thessaly, Central Greece and the Peloponnese. Staurakios restores a measure of Byzantine authority over these areas, and collects booty and tribute from the locals.

Europe

  • Mauregatus of Asturias, illegitimate son of the late king Alfonso I, usurps the throne after the death of his brother-in-law Silo. However, the nobility has elected Alfonso II at Adosinda's (wife of Silo) insistence, but Mauregatus assembles a large army of supporters, and forces Alfonso to flee to Álava (modern Spain). Adosinda is put in the monastery of San Juan de Pravia, where she lives out the rest of her life.
  • April 30 Hildegard, wife of King Charlemagne, dies in childbirth after her ninth confinement in less than 12 years of marriage. His mother, Bertrada of Laon, dies in the summer and is buried with great ceremony beside her husband Pepin the Short, in the Abbey of St. Denis (modern-day Paris).
  • October Charlemagne marries Fastrada, the 18-year-old daughter of a Frankish count named Rudolph, and makes her his queen at Worms. The probable reason behind the marriage is to solidify a Frankish alliance east of the Rhine, against the Saxons in Lower Saxony (modern Germany).
  • Winter Saxon Wars: Charlemagne defeats the Saxon rebels in a three-day battle next to the Hase River, and perhaps overruns fortifications on the Wittekindsberg, before ravaging southern Saxony. A Frisian uprising against Carolingian rule is supported by Duke Widukind.[1]

Births

Deaths

  • April 30 Hildegard, queen consort of Charlemagne (b. 758)
  • July 12 Bertrada of Laon, queen consort of Pepin the Short
  • Cynewulf, bishop of Lindisfarne (approximate date)
  • Fujiwara no Uona, Japanese minister (b. 721)
  • Han Gan, Chinese painter of the Tang Dynasty
  • Isa ibn Musa, Muslim governor (or 784)
  • Silo, king of Asturias (Spain)

References

  1. Nicolle 2014, p. 20.

Sources

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