782

Year 782 (DCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 782 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:
782 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar782
DCCLXXXII
Ab urbe condita1535
Armenian calendar231
ԹՎ ՄԼԱ
Assyrian calendar5532
Balinese saka calendar703–704
Bengali calendar189
Berber calendar1732
Buddhist calendar1326
Burmese calendar144
Byzantine calendar6290–6291
Chinese calendar辛酉年 (Metal Rooster)
3478 or 3418
     to 
壬戌年 (Water Dog)
3479 or 3419
Coptic calendar498–499
Discordian calendar1948
Ethiopian calendar774–775
Hebrew calendar4542–4543
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat838–839
 - Shaka Samvat703–704
 - Kali Yuga3882–3883
Holocene calendar10782
Iranian calendar160–161
Islamic calendar165–166
Japanese calendarTen'ō 2 / Enryaku 1
(延暦元年)
Javanese calendar677–678
Julian calendar782
DCCLXXXII
Korean calendar3115
Minguo calendar1130 before ROC
民前1130年
Nanakshahi calendar−686
Seleucid era1093/1094 AG
Thai solar calendar1324–1325
Tibetan calendar阴金鸡年
(female Iron-Rooster)
908 or 527 or −245
     to 
阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
909 or 528 or −244
Rabanus Maurus (left), with Alcuin (middle), presents his work to archbishop Odgar (right)

Events

Abbasid Empire

  • Arab–Byzantine War: Arab forces (95,000 men) under Harun al-Rashid, son of the Abbasid caliph Al-Mahdi, cross the Taurus Mountains and capture the Byzantine border fortress of Magida. Harun leaves his lieutenant Al-Rabi' ibn Yunus to besiege the city of Nakoleia (Phrygia), while another force (30,000 men), probably under Yahya ibn Khalid, is sent to raid the western coastlands of Asia Minor. Harun himself, with the main army, advances to the Opsician Theme.
  • Summer Harun al-Rashid reaches as far as Chrysopolis, across the Bosporus Straits from the Byzantine capital, Constantinople. After the defection of the Armenian general Tatzates, Empress Irene accepts a three-year truce, including the annual payment of a tribute of 70,000 or 90,000 gold dinars, and the handing over of 10,000 silk garments. Harun releases all his captives (5,600 men), including chief minister Staurakios and other hostages.[1][2]

Byzantine Empire

  • Emperor Constantine VI is betrothed to the 6-year-old Rotrude, daughter of Charlemagne; Irene sends a scholar monk called Elisaeus to educate her in Greek language and manners.[3]

Europe

  • Summer Saxon Wars: King Charlemagne sends a punitive expedition (an elite force of Eastern Frankish troops) under the command of Adalgis the Chamberlain, Gallo, and Worad, supported by Saxon forces, to deal with the Saxons and Sorb raiders in Thuringia.[4]
  • Battle of Süntel: The Franks under Charlemagne are defeated by Saxon rebels, led by Widukind. He succeeds in wiping out more than half of the occupying Frankish forces and again raises the banner of revolt.
  • Autumn Charlemagne returns from his campaign in Italy, and musters a Frankish army of available troops in Bavaria. He then marches to Saxony, probably to Eresburg. Charlemagne marches north, down the Weser to the Aller River, making camp near Verden.[5]
  • Massacre of Verden: Charlemagne executes 4,500 rebel Saxons at Verden for practicing paganism. He issues the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae and imposes Christianity on the Saxons, making Saxony a Frankish province.
  • Charlemagne summons Alcuin, Anglo-Saxon missionary, to Aachen, and appoints him as chief adviser on religious and educational matters. He becomes the leading scholar and teacher at the Carolingian court.

Religion

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Garland 1999, pp. 76–77.
  2. Treadgold 1997, p. 418.
  3. Runciman, Steven. "The Empress Irene the Athenian." Medieval Woman. Ed. Derek Baker. Oxford: Ecclesiastical History Society, 1978.
  4. Nicolle 2014, p. 51.
  5. Nicolle 2014, p. 65.

Sources

  • Garland, Lynda (1999). Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium, AD 527–1204. New York and London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-14688-3.
  • Nicolle, David (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5.
  • Treadgold, Warren (1997). A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2630-2.
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