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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
- First mention of Allfeld, Altengronau, Altleiningen, Gedern, Herb life, Hördt, Kornwestheim, Bad Lippspringe, Niederstetten, Oberaudorf, Rossinière, Lower Small and Wiesentfels
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