789

Year 789 (DCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 789 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:
789 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar789
DCCLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita1542
Armenian calendar238
ԹՎ ՄԼԸ
Assyrian calendar5539
Balinese saka calendar710–711
Bengali calendar196
Berber calendar1739
Buddhist calendar1333
Burmese calendar151
Byzantine calendar6297–6298
Chinese calendar戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
3485 or 3425
     to 
己巳年 (Earth Snake)
3486 or 3426
Coptic calendar505–506
Discordian calendar1955
Ethiopian calendar781–782
Hebrew calendar4549–4550
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat845–846
 - Shaka Samvat710–711
 - Kali Yuga3889–3890
Holocene calendar10789
Iranian calendar167–168
Islamic calendar172–173
Japanese calendarEnryaku 8
(延暦8年)
Javanese calendar684–685
Julian calendar789
DCCLXXXIX
Korean calendar3122
Minguo calendar1123 before ROC
民前1123年
Nanakshahi calendar−679
Seleucid era1100/1101 AG
Thai solar calendar1331–1332
Tibetan calendar阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
915 or 534 or −238
     to 
阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
916 or 535 or −237
Text of the Admonitio generalis (789)

Events

Europe

Britain

Islamic Caliphate

  • Al-Khayzuran, widow of former Abbasid caliph Al-Mahdi, dies, leaving more of the effective and real power in the hands of Harun al-Rashid.
  • Idris I reaches Volubilis and founds the Idrisid dynasty, ceding Morocco from the Abbasid caliphate and founding the first Moroccan state.

Asia

  • An uprising in Japan leads to a major defeat for Emperor Kanmu, along with a severe drought and famine; the streets of the capital Nagaoka-kyō are clogged with the sick.

Births

  • Lu Shang, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 859)
  • Ziryab, Muslim poet and musician (d. 857)

Deaths

  • February 20 Leo of Catania, saint and bishop of Catania (b. 709)
  • November 8 Willehad, bishop of Bremen
  • Al-Khayzuran, powerful wife and adviser of Abbasid caliph Al-Mahdi and the excellent mother of Al-Hadi and Harun Al-Rashid, the Abbasid caliphs, de facto co-ruler of the Abbasid Caliphate
  • Fiachnae mac Áedo Róin, king of Ulaid (Ireland)
  • Amat al-Aziz Ghadir, was the mother of Abbasid prince; Ali ibn Harun al-Rashid.
  • Hildeprand, duke of Spoleto
  • Mauregatus, king of Asturias (or 788)
  • Muhammad ibn Sulayman ibn Ali, Abbasid prince and provincial governor
  • Torson, Frankish count of Toulouse (or 790)

References

  1. Jeep (2001), pp. 5–6
  2. Rees, Rosemary (2002). The Vikings. Heinemann. p. 45. ISBN 9781403401007.
  3. Sprague, Martina (2007). Norse Warfare: The Unconventional Battle Strategies of the Ancient Vikings. Hippocrene. p. 10. ISBN 9780781811767.
  4. Wales, Katie (2006). Northern English: A Social and Cultural History. Cambridge UP. p. 53. ISBN 9781139457057.
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