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Calendar overview 788
Map with all linked sites: | 788 | |
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 Duke Tassilo III. is deposed by him. |
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| 788 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 236/237 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 780/781 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1331/32 (southern Buddhism); 1330/31 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 58th (59th) cycle
Year of the Earth Dragon龙 辰 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Rabbit 丁卯) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 150/151 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 166/167 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 171/172 (June 10-11) |
| Jewish calendar | 4548/49 (September 5-6) |
| Coptic calendar | 504/505 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MDXLI (1541)
Diocletian's era : 504/505 (November turn of the year) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1098/99 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1099/1100 (New Year October) |
| Spanish era | 826 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 844/845 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Frankish Empire
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Other events in Europe
- Osred II becomes king of Northumbria as successor to Ælfwald I.
- Bermudo I "the deacon" becomes King of Asturias ; he replaces Mauregato ("the usurper").
- Hisham I comes to power as the second emir of Cordoba ; he is the successor to his late father Abd ar-Rahman I and must assert himself in the line of succession against his older brother Sulaiman and his younger brother Abdallah.
- Grimoald III. becomes Lombard Duke of Benevento .
Africa and Asia
The Abbasid Caliphate, under Hārūn ar-Raschīd, sends an expeditionary army through the Cilician Porte to the Byzantine theme of Anatolicon in Asia Minor . In September it is brought to Kopidnadon by a Byzantine army under Empress Irene . In the battle of Kopidnadon , the Abbasid side wins. Among the Byzantine victims of the battle is a certain Diogenis, who is regarded by some scholars as the historical template for the fictional hero Digenis Akritas .
- After the death of Ibn Rustam, Abdalwahab ibn Rustam becomes the second ruler of the Rustamid dynasty in Algeria .
First documentary mentions
- The first documented mention of Ainring , Ampfing , Erding , Eschelbronn , Ettlingen , Glattburg , Hochhausen , Hügelsheim , Kirchweidach , Kleinbasel , Kufstein , Mehring , Murrhardt , Nussdorf am Inn , Oberrot , Oerlenbach , Ötigheim , Pülfringen , Palling , Raitenhaslach , Rettigheim , Riedering , Rödelheim , Schmie , Schwallungen , Seckach , Solms and Zainingen
religion
Buddhism in Japan
- Foundation of the temple monastery Enryaku-ji near Kyōto by the monk Saichō
Christianity
- July 14 : Charlemagne established the diocese of Bremen for the northern part of Saxony in accordance with the old Roman custom in Speyer and gave this new diocese to Willehad on behalf of Pope Hadrian I and after the advice of Archbishop Lullus of Mainz and the bishops present .
- Tanko becomes Bishop of Verden .
- Gisela, sister of Charlemagne, becomes abbess of Chelles .
- Preparation of the Notitia Arnonis as a property register of the diocese of Salzburg ; it is named after Bishop Arno .
- With the removal of Tassilos, Niederalteich , Frauenchiemsee , Mondsee and Wessobrunn become imperial monasteries.
Born
- Boniface II of Lucca , Margrave of Tuscany († 847 )
- around 788: Shankara , philosopher of Hinduism († around 820 )
Died
- September 23 : Ælfwald I , King of Northumbria
- September 30th : Abd ar-Rahman I , Emir of Córdoba (* 731 )
- Mauregato , King of Asturias
- Mazu Daoyi , Buddhist monk (* 709 )
- around 788: Adalgis , son of the last Lombard king Desiderius
- around 788: Desiderius , King of the Lombards
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