787

This article is about the year 787. For the number, see 787 (number). For other uses, see 787 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	750s  760s  770s  – 780s –  790s  800s  810s
Years:	784 785 786 – 787 – 788 789 790

787 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

787 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	787 DCCLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1540
Armenian calendar	236 ԹՎ ՄԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	5537
Bahá'í calendar	-1057–-1056
Bengali calendar	194
Berber calendar	1737
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1331
Burmese calendar	149
Byzantine calendar	6295–6296
Chinese calendar	丙寅年十二月初八日 (3423/3483-12-8) — to — 丁卯年十一月十七日 (3424/3484-11-17)
Coptic calendar	503–504
Ethiopian calendar	779–780
Hebrew calendar	4547–4548
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	843–844
- Shaka Samvat	709–710
- Kali Yuga	3888–3889
Holocene calendar	10787
Iranian calendar	165–166
Islamic calendar	170–171
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3120
Minguo calendar	1125 before ROC 民前1125年
Thai solar calendar	1330

Year 787 (DCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 787 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

Europe

• Conall succeeds Drest as king of the Picts.

Africa

• After over 25 years of bloody conflict, the Abbasid army reconquers the whole of Maghrib.

By topic

Religion

• The Second Council of Nicaea ends the first iconoclastic period in the Byzantine Empire.

Births

• Abu Mas'har, scholar

Deaths

• Arechis II of Benevento