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Heads of State

Year of the Hare wood乙卯( at the beginning of the year Wood Tiger甲寅)

Era of Diocletian: 491/492 ( year November )

Syria: 1086/87 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • January: At a meeting in the royal palace Quierzy the Franks decide under Charlemagne in the Saxon wars a second campaign against the Saxons; the army is then gathered in spring in Cologne, where the rise takes place along the so-called Kaiser- route. The Saxon Sigiburg over the Ruhr and the Eresburg be taken by the Franks. While the Engern be defeated in Hoexter the Weser is exceeded and will also hit the Ostfalen suffers a Frankish Association against the Westphalia defeat.
  • September 14: Leo IV is new after the death of his father Constantine V Emperor of the Byzantine Empire. Although Leo is also iconoclast, tracking the images admirer is restricted under the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy.
  • Schwibrecht is the first bishop of Verden.
  • Alpine II is the successor of Ciniod as king of the Picts.

Asia

  • October: death of the caliph al - Mansur. Successor as the third Abbasid Caliph al- Mahdi.
  • At 775: The Oghuz, who were expelled from the east of the Uyghur, settle on the Aral Sea and the lower Syr Darya.

Ersturkundliche mentions

  • Apfelstädt, Alsenz, Bad Salzungen, Egg, Elxleben ( Ilm -Kreis), Framersheim, Gotha, Großeicholzheim, Kindelbrueck, Münsingen (Württemberg ), Upper churches, Singlis, Sulzbach, Uster and Zimmernsupra are first mentioned.

Religion

  • On the initiative of the Mainz Bishop Lull Karl raises the Great Abbey Hersfeld Abbey to the kingdom.
  • After the death of Gregory of Utrecht is Alberich I. Bishop of Utrecht.
  • Siegwin II is the Bishop of Speyer.
  • To 775: inauguration of Samye, the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet by the tantric master Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche).

Nature and Environment

  • 774/775: According to a scientific hypothesis meets an exceptionally strong showers of cosmic rays, the earth, which leads to an increase in the C14 content of 1.2% and also at significantly higher levels of beryllium-10 (Be -10).

Born

  • Bertha, Carolingian noblewoman († 830 )
  • To 775: Leo V, Byzantine Emperor († 820)

Died

  • October: al- Mansur, the second Abbasid Caliph (c. 709)
  • At 775 Gregory of Utrecht, Bishop and Missionary ( c. 707)
  • To 775: Lebuin, Benedictine monk of English origin, a missionary of the Frisians

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