797

Year 797 (DCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 797 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:
797 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar797
DCCXCVII
Ab urbe condita1550
Armenian calendar246
ԹՎ ՄԽԶ
Assyrian calendar5547
Balinese saka calendar718–719
Bengali calendar204
Berber calendar1747
Buddhist calendar1341
Burmese calendar159
Byzantine calendar6305–6306
Chinese calendar丙子年 (Fire Rat)
3493 or 3433
     to 
丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
3494 or 3434
Coptic calendar513–514
Discordian calendar1963
Ethiopian calendar789–790
Hebrew calendar4557–4558
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat853–854
 - Shaka Samvat718–719
 - Kali Yuga3897–3898
Holocene calendar10797
Iranian calendar175–176
Islamic calendar180–181
Japanese calendarEnryaku 16
(延暦16年)
Javanese calendar692–693
Julian calendar797
DCCXCVII
Korean calendar3130
Minguo calendar1115 before ROC
民前1115年
Nanakshahi calendar−671
Seleucid era1108/1109 AG
Thai solar calendar1339–1340
Tibetan calendar阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
923 or 542 or −230
     to 
阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
924 or 543 or −229
Gold solidus of Constantine VI and Leo IV

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • April 19 Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son Constantine VI. He is captured and blinded; Irene exiles him to Principo, where he dies shortly thereafter of his wounds. Irene begins a 5-year reign, and calls herself basileus ("emperor") of the Byzantine Empire.

Europe

  • King Charlemagne issues the Capitulare Saxonicum, making Westphalian, Angrian and Eastphalian Saxons equal to other peoples in the Frankish Kingdom. The Nordalbian Saxons revolt; a Frankish fleet is sent to the North Sea coast of Germany. It lands in Hadeln, a marshy coastal region between the Weser and Elbe estuaries, near modern-day Cuxhaven. Charlemagne invades northern Saxony, and again accepts the submission of the Saxons.[1]

Britain

  • Battle of Rhuddlan: Welsh forces, including those of Powys and Dyfed, clash with Mercians. King Coenwulf tries to re-assert his domination of northeast Wales. King Caradog ap Meirion of Gwynedd is killed during the fighting (approximate date).

Births

Deaths

  • February 6 Donnchad Midi, High King of Ireland
  • Æthelberht of Whithorn, Anglo-Saxon bishop
  • Al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba, Muslim military leader
  • Bermudo I, king of Asturias (approximate date)
  • Caradog ap Meirion, king of Gwynedd (approximate date)
  • Constantine VI, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (b. 771)
  • Cummascach mac Fogartaig, king of South Brega
  • Guan Bo, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 719)
  • Muireadhach mac Olcobhar, Anglo-Saxon abbot

References

  1. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 81. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
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