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Heads of State
Year of the Fire Dragon丙辰( at the beginning of the year wood rabbit乙卯)
Era of Diocletian: 492/493 ( year November )
Syria: 1087/88 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Frankish Empire / Italy
- Charlemagne holds again in Italy and subjects the Duchy of Spoleto, where he uses Hildeprand as Duke.
- As part of the Saxon wars the Saxons use the absence of Charlemagne to a recent counter-attack and re-conquer the Eresburg and Hohensyburgstraße.
- Charlemagne forcing a number of franken -friendly nobles to complete a contract with him.
- Duke of Friuli Hrodgaud rises against Charlemagne, but is defeated and killed by this in battle. The Duchy of Friuli is dissolved and incorporated as a boundary mark in the Frankish Empire. Marcarius is employed as an administrator.
Byzantine Empire
- The Byzantine Emperor Leo IV making his son Constantine as co-emperor; together they suppress a rebellion, instigate the Leos stepbrothers on this occasion
Africa and Asia
- Ibn Rustam established the Emirate of charidschitische Rustamiden in Tahert (Algeria).
- Uprising of al - Muqanna in Khorasan against the Abbasids (up to 779 ).
Ersturkundliche mentions
- First documentary mention of Baierbrunn, Donnstetten, Herrsching am Ammersee, Kandern, Neuhof an der Zenn, Upper - Florsheim, Pullach, Rudolstadt, Talheim Vilshofen on the Danube and West Hausen (bei Hildburghausen ).
Religion
- Liudger begins to proselytize among the Frisians.
Born
- Luitgard, wife of Charles the Great ( † 800 )
- Sahnun ibn Sa'id, the founder of the Maliki school of law in North Africa († 854 )
- 776: Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al - Mahbun Kinani al - lithium al - Basri, black Arabic writer († 868/869 )
Died
- MARCH 8: Heddo, Bishop of Strasbourg (c. 697 )
- Hrodgaud, Duke of Friuli