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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Hare丁卯( at the beginning of the year Fire Tiger丙寅)

Era of Diocletian: 503/504 ( year November )

Syria: 1098/99 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • Between Charlemagne and Duke Tassilo III. of Bavaria, there is a first confrontation. Karl throws Tassilo before its alliance with the Lombards of Benevento directed against the Frankish Empire, whereupon Karl at the Bavarian borders three armies can march. Then Tassilo loses the support of his own nobility and clergy and submits to; he is now invested with the duchy again. (see: 788 )
  • Campaign of Charlemagne against the rebellious Lombard Duke of Benevento, Arichis II Here among other things, Capua and Salerno are besieged. Instead of Arichis sets Grimoald Charles III. as a new Duke, who is from the Frankish Empire suzerainty.
  • The Sabine country and the south of Tuscia be part of the Papal States.
  • Unroch I. is Duke of Friuli; He is the successor of Marcarius.
  • Giovanni Galbaio solves Maurizio Galbaio from the Doge of Venice.
  • The engagement between Rotrud, a daughter of Charlemagne, and the young Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. is dissolved.
  • King Offa of Mercia appoints Ecgfrith to co-regent.
  • Achaius becomes King of Scotland.

Asia and Africa

  • The Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad recognizes the independence of the rule of Rustamiden in Algeria.

Ersturkundliche mentions

  • First mention of Altnau, mountains near Neuburg, Ehingen, Mühlhausen, Singen ( Hohentwiel ) and Wörth an der Donau.

Religion

  • September 24: Beginning of the Second Council of Nicaea. The Seventh Ecumenical Council, convened by the Regent Irene, to clarify the question of image-worship. With the conditional approval of worship and the prohibition of worship of the iconoclastic controversy is thus settled substantially.
  • Richulf is archbishop of Mainz. He is the successor of the deceased in the previous year Lull.
  • Hildebold becomes bishop of Cologne.
  • Charlemagne visited the monastery of Monte Cassino. He is accompanied by Paul the Deacon, who retires to the monastery.

Born

  • Al-Amin, the Abbasid caliph († 813)
  • Li Deyu, Chinese politician ( † 850)
  • To 787: Albumasar, Persian mathematician, astronomer and astrologer († 886 )

Died

  • 787 or 788: JULY 7: Willibald of Eichstätt, first bishop of Eichstätt (c. 700)
  • Agil Fried, Bishop of Liège
  • Arichis II, Duke of Benevento (c. 734)
  • Hyecho, Korean Buddhist monk (* 704)
  • Maurizio Galbaio, Doge of Venice
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