798

Year 798 (DCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 798 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.

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Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
798 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar798
DCCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita1551
Armenian calendar247
ԹՎ ՄԽԷ
Assyrian calendar5548
Balinese saka calendar719–720
Bengali calendar205
Berber calendar1748
Buddhist calendar1342
Burmese calendar160
Byzantine calendar6306–6307
Chinese calendar丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
3494 or 3434
     to 
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
3495 or 3435
Coptic calendar514–515
Discordian calendar1964
Ethiopian calendar790–791
Hebrew calendar4558–4559
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat854–855
 - Shaka Samvat719–720
 - Kali Yuga3898–3899
Holocene calendar10798
Iranian calendar176–177
Islamic calendar181–182
Japanese calendarEnryaku 17
(延暦17年)
Javanese calendar693–694
Julian calendar798
DCCXCVIII
Korean calendar3131
Minguo calendar1114 before ROC
民前1114年
Nanakshahi calendar−670
Seleucid era1109/1110 AG
Thai solar calendar1340–1341
Tibetan calendar阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
924 or 543 or −229
     to 
阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
925 or 544 or −228
King Coenwulf of Mercia conquers Kent

Events

Europe

  • Battle of Bornhöved: King Charlemagne forms an alliance with the Obodrites. Together with Prince Drożko (Thrasco), he defeats the Nordalbian Saxons near the village of Bornhöved (modern-day Neumünster), obliging these 'northerners' to submit and give hostages against their future good behavior.[1] In the coming years they are granted areas of present-day Hamburg.
  • King Charles the Younger, a son of Charlemagne, conquers Corsica and Sardinia (approximate date).

Britain

  • King Coenwulf of Mercia invades Gwynedd (modern Wales), and kills his rival Caradog ap Meirion during the fighting in Snowdonia. Kings Cynan and Hywel retake the throne. Coenwulf also defeats and captures King Eadberht Præn of Kent. He is blinded and his hands are cut off.[2] He introduces his brother Cuthred as a sub-king of Kent (approximate date).
  • Battle of Billington: King Eardwulf of Northumbria defeats the nobleman Wada in battle, who has killed former King Æthelred I (see 796).
  • King Sigeric I of Essex abdicates and departs for a pilgrimage to Rome. He is succeeded by his son Sigered.

Iberia

  • King Alfonso II of Asturias campaigns against the Arab Muslims in Al-Andalus. With Frankish military support, he raids into Andalusia and sacks Lisbon (modern Portugal).[3]
  • Bahlul ibn Marzuq, a Vascon-Muslim military leader, revolts in Zaragoza against the Arab-Muslim government of Al-Andalus.

Religion

  • Alcuin, Anglo-Saxon monk and scholar, writes to his friend, the exiled king Osbald of Northumbria, in order to dissuade him.
  • Theodulf, Frankish poet, is appointed bishop of Orléans. He becomes one of Charlemagne's favoured theologians.

Births

  • Abdallah ibn Tahir, Muslim governor (approximate date)
  • Babak Khorramdin, Persian military leader (approximate date)
  • Ignatius I, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date)

Deaths

  • Abu Yusuf, Muslim jurist and chief adviser
  • Caradog ap Meirion, king of Gwynedd (or 797)
  • Lu Mai, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 739)
  • Wonseong, king of Silla (Korea)

References

  1. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 82. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5.
  2. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, manuscript E, year 796 (798). Translation by Michael Swanton, 1996.
  3. Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle0. L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 109. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.
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