794

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794
Holy Sola dies.	In a document on the Synod of Frankfurt is Frankfurt am Main first mentioned.
In Japan , the capital of the empire is moved from Nara to Heian-kyō , with which the Heian period begins.
794 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	242/243 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	786/787
Buddhist calendar	1337/38 (southern Buddhism); 1336/37 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	58th (59th) cycle Year of the Wood Dog甲戌 ( at the beginning of the year water tap 癸酉)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	156/157 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	172/173 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	177/178 (April 6/7)
Jewish calendar	4554/55 (August 31 / September 1)
Coptic calendar	510/511
Roman calendar	ab urbe condita MDXLVII (1547) Diocletian's era : 510/511 (New Year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1104/05 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1105/06 (New Year October)
Spanish era	832
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	850/851 (turn of the year April)

Events

Battle on the Sintfeld near Bad Wünnenberg / Westphalia : The Franks succeed in a decisive victory against the Saxons during the Saxon Wars .

Tassilo III banished to the monastery . is invited to the Frankfurt Synod , where he is forced to renounce all claims to the Duchy of Baiern for himself and his family ; then he has to go to the monastery again.

After the death of his third wife, Fastrada , Charlemagne married Liutgard, an Alemannic .

The 16-year-old son of Charlemagne, Ludwig the Pious , is married to the Robertine Irmingard von Hespengau .

After the death of King Æthelberht II, the kingdom of East Anglia comes under the direct rule of Mercia under King Offa .
Alfonso II of Asturias defeated the Moors under General Abd al-Malik in the Battle of Lutos .

In Japan the capital of the empire is moved from Nara to Heian-kyō (Kyōto) and remains so for a good 800 years. The Nara period is thus replaced by the Heian period . The long-standing practice of changing capital with every emperor is finally abandoned. The cause was the fear that death would pollute a place.

June 1st : Opening of the Synod of Frankfurt : Here Charlemagne turns against the veneration of images (which had been declared permissible by the Nicaea Council ); to justify his position, Charlemagne had the Carolinian books made. In addition, adoptianism is again condemned as heresy. Representatives from Galicia also take part in the Synod .

September 1 : After Turpin's death , the office of Archbishop of Reims remains vacant for 18 years.

September 29th : After Berowelf's death , Gumbert is elected Bishop of Würzburg at the end of the year .

August 10 : Fastrada , third wife of Charlemagne (* around 765 )
September 1st : Turpin , Archbishop of Reims (* before 748/751)
September 29th : Berowelf , Bishop of Würzburg
December 3rd : Sola , missionary in the Franconian Empire, abbot of Solnhofen, saint of the Catholic Church

Æthelberht II , King of East Anglia, martyr and saint of the Catholic Church

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