787

Calendar overview 787

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787
The Second Council of Nicaea , convened by Regent Irene , settles the Byzantine Iconoclasm .
787 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	235/236 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	779/780
Buddhist calendar	1330/31 (southern Buddhism); 1329/30 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	58th (59th) cycle Year of the Fire Rabbit 丁卯 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Tiger 丙寅)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	149/150 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	165/166 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	170/171 (June 21/22)
Jewish calendar	4547/48 (September 16-17)
Coptic calendar	503/504
Roman calendar	from urbe condita MDXL (1540) Diocletian's era : 503/504 (November turn of the year)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1097/98 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1098/99 (New Year October)
Spanish era	825
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	843/844 (turn of the year April)

Events

Between Charlemagne and Duke Tassilo III. von Baiern there is a first confrontation. Karl accuses Tassilo of his anti- Franconian alliance with the Lombards in Benevento , whereupon Karl has three armies deployed on the Bavarian borders. Thereupon Tassilo loses the support of his own nobility and clergy and submits; he is now enfeoffed again with the duchy.
Charlemagne leads a campaign against the insubordinate Lombard Duke of Benevento , Arichis II : Capua and Salerno , among others, are besieged. Instead of Arichis, Karl Grimoald III. as a new duke who is dependent on the Frankish empire.
The Sabine country and the South Tuscia become part of the Papal States .
Unroch I becomes Duke of Friuli ; he is the successor of Marcarius.
Giovanni Galbaio replaces Maurizio Galbaio as Doge of Venice . He is not elected because he was co-doge during the reign of his father.
The engagement between Rotrud , a daughter of Charlemagne, and the young Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. will be solved.

The Caliphate of the Abbasids in Baghdad recognizes the independence of the rule of rustamid dynasty in Algeria on.

July 13 : Consecration of Willehad as bishop over Wigmodi , Laras, Riustri, Asterga, Nordendi and Wanga (on the lower Weser and between the mouth of the Weser and Ems)

The seventh ecumenical council on an icon from the 17th century

September 24th : The Second Council of Nicaea begins. This seventh ecumenical council was convened by the regent Irene to clarify the question of the veneration of images . The council ends on October 23rd . With the conditional admission of worship and the prohibition of worship, the iconoclast is essentially settled.
Richulf becomes Archbishop of Mainz . He is the successor to Lullus, who died the previous year .
Hildebold becomes Bishop of Cologne .
Charlemagne visits the Monte Cassino monastery . He is accompanied by Paulus deacon , who withdraws to the monastery.

Al-Amin , Abbasid Caliph († 813 )
Li Deyu , Chinese politician († 850 )
around 787: Albumasar , Persian mathematician, astronomer and astrologer († 886 )

Willibald statue in Eichstätt Cathedral

787 or 788 : July 7th : Willibald von Eichstätt , first bishop of Eichstätt (* around 700 )
Agilfried , Bishop of Liege
Arichis II , Duke of Benevento (* around 734 )
Hyecho , Korean Buddhist monk (* 704 )
Maurizio Galbaio , Doge of Venice

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