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Heads of State

Year of The Fire Tiger丙寅( at the beginning of the year Wood Buffalo乙丑)

Era of Diocletian: 502/503 ( year November )

Syria: 1097/98 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Asia

• Haaroon ar - Rashid plunges his brother al - Hādī and is the fifth Abbasid Caliph. The appointment of Barmacides in the vizier official the Persertum is strengthened.
• King Dhruva, ruler of the Rashtrakuta dynasty in Central India, defeated Vatsaraja, King of the Pratihara dynasty, whose expansion is stopped it.

Europe

• Is Beorhtric after the death Cynewulfs new king of Wessex, although Egbert throne claims represents.
• Hardeners, Bebra, Donndorf, Dormettingen, Dunningen, Gebesee, Hechingen, Herzfeld, Knielingen, Kölleda, Merzhausen, Nagold, Nieder-Roden, Oberbösa, Schwebda, Treysa, Weil am Rhein and Wiehe are first mentioned.

Africa

• Idris ibn Abdallah followed a Shia and a descendant of the Caliph Ali by the Abbasids and fled to the Maghreb, where two years later he founded the rule of Idrisids.

Economy

• In Old Ladoga, the use of Arabic coins is first detectable.

• 786: King Offa of Mercia into his kingdom the penny as a silver coin.

Religion, Science and Culture

• The choir diocese Büraburg is dissolved.
• Waldo is abbot of the monastery of Reichenau. He performs here a grammar school.

Nature and Environment

• April 3: In Cyrenaica, Syria and Mesopotamia, a total solar eclipse can be observed.

Born

• September 7: Saga, Japanese Emperor († 842 )

• Junna, Japanese Emperor († 840)

• 786: Al- Ma'mun, Abbasid Caliph († 833 )

Died

• January 6: Abo of Tiflis, Christian Martyr (c. 756 )
• October 16: Lull, Archbishop of Mainz (c. 710)

• Al -Hadi, Abbasid Caliph (* 766 )
• Cynewulf, King of Wessex