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Calendar overview 797
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| 797 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 245/246 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 789/790 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1340/41 (southern Buddhism); 1339/40 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 58th (59th) cycle
Year of the Fire Ox丁丑 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Rat 丙子) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 159/160 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 175/176 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 180/181 (March 4th / 5th) |
| Jewish calendar | 4557/58 (August 27-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 513/514 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MDL (1550)
Diocletian's era : 513/514 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1107/08 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1108/09 (New Year October) |
| Spanish era | 835 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 853/854 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Byzantine Empire
- August 15 : On the orders of his mother Irene , the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. trapped, deposed, and blinded ; he later dies of the wounds. Irene can be proclaimed sole empress.
Central Europe
- October 28 : Charlemagne issues the Capitulare Saxonicum . The law solves the since 782 valid Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae to criticism from the Church on the death penalty limits and replaces them with fines. Furthermore, it equates the subject Saxons to the other peoples of the Frankish Empire . The softening of Karl's occupation regime is a sign of the increasing consolidation of his rule in Saxony .
- Charlemagne's son Pippin leads a campaign against the Slavs together with Bavarian and Longobard associations .
- First Avar uprising
- Construction of a Slavic castle complex near Spandau
First documentary mentions
- All , Frittlingen , Gerlingen , Haidgau , Trossingen , Tuningen , Tuttlingen and Wurmlingen (district Tuttlingen) are first mentioned.
- First dated mention of Sindlingen in the Lorsch Codex .
Religion and culture
- Inauguration of the 1st Buddhist monastery Samye- Ling in Tibet
- Foundation of the Herrieden monastery
- Georgios II becomes Patriarch of Jerusalem . He succeeds Elias II.
- Completion of the Japanese chronicle Shoku Nihongi
Born
Exact date of birth unknown
- Pippin I , King of Aquitaine († 838 )
- Ignatios I , Patriarch of Constantinople († 877 )
Born around 797
- Meinrad von Einsiedeln , hermit († 861 )
Died
Exact date of death unknown
- Beornrad von Sens , Archbishop of Sens
- Constantine VI , Byzantine emperor (* around 771 )
Died around 797
- Bermudo I , King of Asturias (* around 750 )
- 797/ 799 : Paul the Deacon , the Lombard historian and monk (* around 720 )
Web links
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