784

This article is about the year 784. For the number (and other uses), see 784 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	750s  760s  770s  – 780s –  790s  800s  810s
Years:	781 782 783 – 784 – 785 786 787

784 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

784 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	784 DCCLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1537
Armenian calendar	233 ԹՎ ՄԼԳ
Assyrian calendar	5534
Bahá'í calendar	-1060–-1059
Bengali calendar	191
Berber calendar	1734
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1328
Burmese calendar	146
Byzantine calendar	6292–6293
Chinese calendar	癸亥年十二月初四日 (3420/3480-12-4) — to — 甲子年十一月十五日 (3421/3481-11-15)
Coptic calendar	500–501
Ethiopian calendar	776–777
Hebrew calendar	4544–4545
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	840–841
- Shaka Samvat	706–707
- Kali Yuga	3885–3886
Holocene calendar	10784
Iranian calendar	162–163
Islamic calendar	167–168
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3117
Minguo calendar	1128 before ROC 民前1128年
Thai solar calendar	1327

Year 784 (DCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 784 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

• The Japanese capital moves away from Nara, ending the Nara period.
• The Chinese engineer and prince Li Gao invents a successful model of a paddle-wheel ship.

By topic

Religion

• August 31 – Paul IV abdicates as Patriarch of Constantinople.
• December 25 – Tarasius is elected Patriarch of Constantinople.

Deaths

• Vergilius of Salzburg