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Heads of State

Year of the Water Buffalo癸丑( at the beginning of the year, water - rat壬子)

Era of Diocletian: 489/490 ( year November )

Syria: 1084/85 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• March - Pope Hadrian I asks the Frankish king Charlemagne sent envoys to help against the Lombards under King Desiderius.
• In late summer, Karl begins his Langobardenfeldzug: He crossed the Alps at the Mont Cenis, a second army column under his uncle Bernhard chooses the route through the Great St. Bernard Pass. Together, they manage to Klausen of St. Michael at the output of Susatales to overwhelm the Lombard army.
• Autumn: Siege of Pavia ( 773-774 ): Charlemagne begins with the siege of the Lombard capital of Pavia. Also Verona is besieged.
• In response to the beginning of the Saxon wars in the previous year the Saxons of Westphalia perform a Vergeltungszug against Deventer, the Eresburg is recaptured, and later the monastery Fritzlar is overrun. They take advantage of the absence of Charlemagne.
• Cadell ap Brochfael, after the death of his father Brochfael ap Elisedd king of the Celtic Kingdom of Powys.

Asia

• Yazid Ibn useId It is Sulami Wali of the Abbasids.

Ersturkundliche mentions

• First mention of the communities Alsbach, Beienheim, Buchen (Odenwald), Freinsheim, Hangen- Weisheim, high village, Jesenwang, Massenbach, Massenbachhausen, bathroom Mingolsheim, Neckarhausen, Neckar rooms, Obrigheim (Baden), Pfatter, Schillingstadt, Sünching, Tiefenbach and Velden Vils.

Religion

• Is Sigibert Bishop of Uzès.

Born

• Dionysius of Tell Mahre, Patriarch of Antioch († 845)
• Liu Zongyuan, Chinese scholar officials († 819)

• 772/773 - Charles the Younger, son of Charles the Great ( † 811 )

Died

• Brochfael ap Elisedd, King of Powys
• Robes, Buddhist monk scholar (* 689 )
• Sa ʿ ibn Abī ʿ īd Aruba al - ʿ Adawi al - Basri, traditionist from Basra