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Calendar overview 790
790 | |
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Nineteen year old Constantine VI. takes advantage of a mercenary revolt directed against his mother Irene to end her reign and to take over government power in the Byzantine Empire . | |
790 in other calendars | |
Armenian calendar | 238/239 (turn of the year July) |
Ethiopian calendar | 782/783 |
Buddhist calendar | 1333/34 (southern Buddhism); 1332/33 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 58th (59th) cycle
Year of the Metal Horse庚午 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Snake 己巳) |
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 152/153 (turn of the year April) |
Iranian calendar | 168/169 (around March 21) |
Islamic calendar | 173/174 (May 20-21) |
Jewish calendar | 4550/51 (September 13-14) |
Coptic calendar | 506/507 |
Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MDXLIII (1543)
Diocletian's era : 506/507 (November turn of the year) |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 1100/01 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1101/02 (New Year October) |
Spanish era | 828 |
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 846/847 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Byzantine Empire
- Nineteen year old Constantine VI. takes advantage of a mercenary revolt directed against his mother Irene to end her reign and to take over government himself.
Europe
- Establishment of the Carolingian Palatinate salt in the grave field
- Æthelred I becomes king of Northumbria a second time . He is the successor to Osred II.
First documentary mentions
- First mention of Rieneck , Höchst , Bürgel , Lich , Wöllstadt and Scheringen in the Lorsch Codex
- The village of Theodissa (today Diez an der Lahn) was first mentioned in a document by Charlemagne
- Sulz am Neckar was first mentioned in a document
Science and culture
- Alkuin is traveling to his home in England.
- Preparation of the 2nd Würzburg mark description in Old High German
- around 790: Ada manuscript was produced at the court school of Charlemagne
religion
- Aethelhard becomes Archbishop of Canterbury to succeed Jaenbert.
- Hamacarus becomes bishop of Utrecht ; he succeeds Theodardus.
- Angilbert becomes abbot of Saint-Riquier .
- The holy Ida builds one of the first Christian churches in Westphalia Herzfeld.
- around 790: Composition of the Wessobrunn prayer
- 790: For the Mission District between Upper Weser and Leine will Fulda monk Erkan Bert appointed bishop. The Romanus Monastery in Hameln is initially the center of his missionary work .
Born
Exact date of birth unknown
- Fātima bint Mūsā , Muslim saint († 817 )
Born around 790
- Leo IV , Pope († 855 )
- Nithard , Franconian historiographer († 845 )
- Otfrid von Weißenburg , Old High German poet († 875 )
- Ramiro I , King of Asturias († 850 )
- Al-Ghazāl , Islamic poet and diplomat
Died
- around 790: Thekla von Kitzingen , saint of Anglo-Saxon origin, abbess of Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt
Web links
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