788

Year 788 (DCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 788 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:
788 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar788
DCCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita1541
Armenian calendar237
ԹՎ ՄԼԷ
Assyrian calendar5538
Balinese saka calendar709–710
Bengali calendar195
Berber calendar1738
Buddhist calendar1332
Burmese calendar150
Byzantine calendar6296–6297
Chinese calendar丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
3484 or 3424
     to 
戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
3485 or 3425
Coptic calendar504–505
Discordian calendar1954
Ethiopian calendar780–781
Hebrew calendar4548–4549
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat844–845
 - Shaka Samvat709–710
 - Kali Yuga3888–3889
Holocene calendar10788
Iranian calendar166–167
Islamic calendar171–172
Japanese calendarEnryaku 7
(延暦7年)
Javanese calendar683–684
Julian calendar788
DCCLXXXVIII
Korean calendar3121
Minguo calendar1124 before ROC
民前1124年
Nanakshahi calendar−680
Seleucid era1099/1100 AG
Thai solar calendar1330–1331
Tibetan calendar阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
914 or 533 or −239
     to 
阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
915 or 534 or −238
Ōnakatomi no Kiyomaro (702–788)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • September Battle of Kopidnadon: An Abbasid expeditionary force crosses the Cilician Gates into the Anatolic Theme (modern Turkey).[1] It is confronted by two Byzantine armies at Podandos in Cappadocia, who are defeated.
  • Byzantine troops led by Adalgis, son of former Lombard king Desiderius, invade southern Italy. His attempts are thwarted by the Franks, who attack territories in Benevento, obtaining notably the annexion of Chieti (Spoleto).

Europe

  • King Charlemagne conquers Bavaria, and incorporates it into the Frankish Kingdom. Duke Tassilo III is deposed, and banished to a monastery.
  • Grimoald III, Lombard duke of Benevento, is installed as semi-client by King Charles the Younger (son of Charlemagne) at Benevento (Italy).
  • The Avars, who are allied with Tassilo III, invade East Francia (modern Germany). This begins the Frankish-Avar conflict.
  • King Mauregatus of Asturias dies after a 5-year reign, and is succeeded by Bermudo I as ruler of Asturias (modern Spain).
  • Abd al-Rahman I, emir of Córdoba, dies after a 32-year reign and is succeeded by his son Hisham I.

Britain

  • King Ælfwald I of Northumbria is murdered, probably at Chesters, by the patricius (ealdorman) Sicga. He is succeeded by his cousin Osred II.

Abbasid Caliphate

Gold dinar of caliph Harun al-Rashid dated AH 171 (AD 788)
  • September Battle of Kopidnadon: An Abbasid expeditionary force against the Byzantine Empire crosses the Cilician Gates into the Anatolic Theme. The Abbasid army launched an invasion of Byzantine Asia Minor, and was confronted by a Byzantine force at Kopidnadon. The resulting battle was an Abbasid victory.
  • Idris ibn Abdallah, known as the "founder of Morocco",[2] settles in Volubilis, beginning the reign of the Idrisid Dynasty (Morocco had effectively been independent from the Arab caliphates since the Great Berber Revolt).

Religion

  • The period covered in Adam of Bremen's historical treatise of the Archbishopric of Hamburg begins.
  • The Enryaku-ji temple complex is founded by Saichō, a Buddhist monk, on Mount Hiei in Ōtsu (Japan).

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Treadgold 1988, p. 91.
  2. A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period, Jamil M. Abun-Nasr, 1987, p. 52

Sources

  • Treadgold, Warren (1988). The Byzantine Revival, 780–842. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1462-4.
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