781

This article is about the year 781. For the number, see 781 (number). For other uses, see 781 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	750s  760s  770s  – 780s –  790s  800s  810s
Years:	778 779 780 – 781 – 782 783 784

781 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

781 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	781 DCCLXXXI
Ab urbe condita	1534
Armenian calendar	230 ԹՎ ՄԼ
Assyrian calendar	5531
Bahá'í calendar	-1063–-1062
Bengali calendar	188
Berber calendar	1731
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1325
Burmese calendar	143
Byzantine calendar	6289–6290
Chinese calendar	庚申年十二月初二日 (3417/3477-12-2) — to — 辛酉年十二月十二日 (3418/3478-12-12)
Coptic calendar	497–498
Ethiopian calendar	773–774
Hebrew calendar	4541–4542
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	837–838
- Shaka Samvat	703–704
- Kali Yuga	3882–3883
Holocene calendar	10781
Iranian calendar	159–160
Islamic calendar	164–165
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3114
Minguo calendar	1131 before ROC 民前1131年
Thai solar calendar	1324

Year 781 (DCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 781 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Asia

• July 31 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
• Emperor Kammu succeeds Emperor Kōnin as emperor of Japan.

Europe

• Charlemagne defines the Papal territory (see Papal States).
• Talorcan II succeeds Drest III as king of the Picts.
• Alcuin becomes Charlemagne's chief adviser on religious and educational matters.

Births

• Al-Jahiz, Afro-Arab scholar

Deaths

• Guo Ziyi, Chinese general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 697)
• Yang Yan