791

Year 791 (DCCXCI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 791 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:
791 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar791
DCCXCI
Ab urbe condita1544
Armenian calendar240
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Assyrian calendar5541
Balinese saka calendar712–713
Bengali calendar198
Berber calendar1741
Buddhist calendar1335
Burmese calendar153
Byzantine calendar6299–6300
Chinese calendar庚午年 (Metal Horse)
3487 or 3427
     to 
辛未年 (Metal Goat)
3488 or 3428
Coptic calendar507–508
Discordian calendar1957
Ethiopian calendar783–784
Hebrew calendar4551–4552
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat847–848
 - Shaka Samvat712–713
 - Kali Yuga3891–3892
Holocene calendar10791
Iranian calendar169–170
Islamic calendar174–175
Japanese calendarEnryaku 10
(延暦10年)
Javanese calendar686–687
Julian calendar791
DCCXCI
Korean calendar3124
Minguo calendar1121 before ROC
民前1121年
Nanakshahi calendar−677
Seleucid era1102/1103 AG
Thai solar calendar1333–1334
Tibetan calendar阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
917 or 536 or −236
     to 
阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
918 or 537 or −235
King Alfonso II of Asturias (12th century)

Events

Europe

  • The Avars, a pagan Asian nomadic horde that has settled down in what is today Hungary, invade Friuli and Bavaria. King Charlemagne assembles a Frankish army, and marches down the Danube River to ravage Avar territory. A Frankish-Lombard expeditionary force, under his son Pepin, (king of the Lombards) invades the Drava Valley and devastates Pannonia.
  • Summer Charlemagne loses most of his riding and baggage horses during an equine epidemic; many Saxons take advantage of Charlemagne's Avar setback and rebel once more.[1]
  • September 14 Alfonso II, the son of former king Fruela I, becomes ruler of Asturias (Northern Spain). He moves the capital to Oviedo, the commercial centre of the region.

Britain

  • Princes Ælf and Ælfwine of Northumbria, the sons of former king Ælfwald I, are persuaded to leave their sanctuary in York Minster, and are immediately forcibly drowned in Wonwaldremere, at the instigation of King Æthelred I.

Africa

  • Emir Idris I, founder of the Idrisid Dynasty and kingdom of Morocco, is poisoned on orders of Caliph Harun al-Rashid.[2][3] He is succeeded by his son Idris II (only just two months old), who is raised by his mother Kenza among the Berbers of Volubilis.

Births

  • Idris II, Muslim emir of Morocco (d. 828)
  • Pei Xiu, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 864)

Deaths

  • Artgal mac Cathail, king of Connacht (Ireland)
  • Idris I, emir and founder of the Idrisid Dynasty (b. 745)
  • Wermad, bishop of Trier
  • Zhang Xiaozhong, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 730)

References

  1. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 79. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
  2. Rogerson, Barnaby (2010). Marrakesh, Fez and Rabat. London: Cadogan Guides. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-86011-432-8.
  3. "The History of Volubilis". Volubilis Project. September 25, 2003. Archived from the original on April 24, 2012. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
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