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Events
- 791 to 803 : Charlemagne's campaign against the Avars .
- First attack by the Vikings on the English monastery of Lindisfarne on June 8, 793, mentioned in writing .
- In 794 , the capital of the Japanese Empire was moved from Nara to Heian-kyō ( Kyōto ). Beginning of the Heian period .
- 795 : First Danish raids on Ireland .
- The diocese of Cologne is elevated to an archbishopric . Hildebold becomes the first archbishop of Cologne.
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