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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Monkey庚申(at the beginning of Earth Sheep己未)

Era of Diocletian: 496/497 ( year November )

Syria: 1091/92 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Byzantine Empire

  • Constantine VI. is under the regency of his mother Irene Emperor of Byzantium.
  • The Muslims under Caliph Al -Mahdi use the change of power in the Byzantine Empire to attack.

Western Europe

  • Drest III. solves Alpine III. as king of the Picts from.
  • 780: Aethelberht II becomes King of East Anglia, he follows Æthelred I..

Ersturkundliche mentions

Science and Technology

  • Charlemagne leads uniform measurement systems for the royal foot as a measure of length and Karl pounds (about 407 g) as a measure of weight.

Religion

  • Foundation of the diocese of Osnabrück, around which the settlement soon developed Osnabrück.
  • Eanbald I. is the Archbishop of York.
  • Paul IV is Patriarch of Constantinople Opel, it follows Nicetas.
  • Higbald is bishop in the Lindisfarne monastery.
  • Willehad begins with the missionary work on the lower Weser.
  • Translation of the relics of St. Wigbert in the Abbey Hersfeld.
  • To 780: foundation of the monastery Au.
  • 780 or 782: Under the Bishopric of Mainz Lull is elevated to archbishopric of Austrasia.

Born

  • Ahmad ibn Hanbal, significant Islamic jurist († 855)
  • John VII Grammatikos, Patriarch of Constantinople Opel ( † about 865)
  • 780: Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz ( † 856)
  • 780: Al- Khwarizmi, the Persian mathematician († btw 835 and 850)
  • 780: Ermengarde, wife of the Emperor Louis the Pious, from the house of Robertiner († 818)

Died

  • September 08: Leo IV, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (* 749 )
  • Al - Mādschischūn, Arabic jurist
  • Khun Lo, founder of the Empire of Rajadharani Sri Sudhana in what is now Laos
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