785
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This article is about the year 785. For the number (and other uses), see 785 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 750s 760s 770s – 780s – 790s 800s 810s |
| Years: | 782 783 784 – 785 – 786 787 788 |
| 785 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 785 DCCLXXXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1538 |
| Armenian calendar | 234 ԹՎ ՄԼԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5535 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1059–-1058 |
| Bengali calendar | 192 |
| Berber calendar | 1735 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1329 |
| Burmese calendar | 147 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6293–6294 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲子年十一月十六日 (3421/3481-11-16) — to —
乙丑年十一月廿五日(3422/3482-11-25) |
| Coptic calendar | 501–502 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 777–778 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4545–4546 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 841–842 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 707–708 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3886–3887 |
| Holocene calendar | 10785 |
| Iranian calendar | 163–164 |
| Islamic calendar | 168–169 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3118 |
| Minguo calendar | 1127 before ROC 民前1127年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1328 |
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Year 785 (DCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The article denomination 785 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. It is still used today in this manner.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- Widukind and many other Saxons are baptized.
- The Frankish empire conquers Girona from the Moors.
- Talorgen succeeds Talorcan II as king of the Picts.
- Višeslav becomes ruler of Croatian Dalmatia.
[edit] Asia
- al-Hadi becomes caliph.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Art
- 785–786 – The construction of the Prayer hall, Great Mosque of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain, is started.
[edit] Religion
- Cologne becomes an archbishopric.
- Council of Paderborn.
[edit] Births
- Tian Bu, Tang Dynasty general
- Zhang Yunshen, Tang Dynasty general
[edit] Deaths
- October 5 – Ōtomo no Yakamochi, Japanese statesman and waka poet
- November 8 – Prince Sawara, fifth son of Emperor Kōnin
- K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat, greatest king of the Maya city of Quiriguá
- Al-Mahdi, Abbasid Caliph
- Yan Zhenqing, renowned Chinese calligrapher and governor (b. 709)
- Zhu Tao, Tang Dynasty general
- Li Huaiguang, Tang Dynasty general
- Liu Changqing, Tang Dynasty poet
- Liu Congyi, Tang Dynasty chancellor
- Liu Peng, Tang Dynasty general
- Máel Dúin mac Fergusa, King of South Brega
- Ruaidrí mac Fáeláin, King of Leinster
- King Seondeok of Silla, king of Silla
- Tatzates, Byzantine general and Abbasid governor of Armenia
- Theophilus of Edessa, Greek astrologer and scholar
