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Heads of State

Year of the Metal horse庚午(at the beginning of Earth Snake己巳)

Era of Diocletian: 506/507 ( year November )

Syria: 1101/ 02 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Byzantine Empire

• The nineteen- year-old Constantine VI. makes a directed against his mother Irene mercenary revolt advantage to end their reign and even take over the government.

Europe

• Establishment of the Carolingian palace salt in the grave field.
• Æthelred I. is the second time King of Northumbria. He succeeds Osred II

Ersturkundliche mentions

• First mention of maximum Biirgel, Lich, Wöllstadt and Scheringen in the Lorsch Codex.
• First mention of the village Theodissa (now Diez ) in a document of Charlemagne.
• First mention of Sulz am Neckar.

Science and Culture

• Alcuin visited his English home.
• Preparation of the second Würzburg Mark description in Old High German.

• 790: Production of Ada handwriting on the court school of Charlemagne.

Religion

• Aethelhard is Archbishop of Canterbury as the successor of Jaenbert.
• Hamacarus becomes bishop of Utrecht; it follows Theodardus.
• Is Angilbert abbot of Saint -Riquier.
• The Holy Ida built one of the first Christian churches in Westphalia Herzfeld.

• 790: writing the Wessobrunner prayer.
• 790: For the Mission district between the upper Weser and Leine the Fulda monk Erkan Bert is appointed bishop. Center of his missionary activities initially forms the Romanus monastery in Hameln.

Born

• Fatima bint Musa, Muslim saints († 817 )

• 790: Leo IV, pope († 855)
• 790: Nithard, Frankish historian († 845)
• 790: Ramiro I, King of Asturias († 850)
• 790: Al- Ghazal, Islamic poet and diplomat

Died

• 790: Thekla of Kitzingen, Saints of Anglo-Saxon origin, Abbess of Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt