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This article is about the year 797. For the number (and other uses), see 797 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 760s 770s 780s – 790s – 800s 810s 820s |
| Years: | 794 795 796 – 797 – 798 799 800 |
| 797 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 797 DCCXCVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1550 |
| Armenian calendar | 246 ԹՎ ՄԽԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5547 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1047–-1046 |
| Bengali calendar | 204 |
| Berber calendar | 1747 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1341 |
| Burmese calendar | 159 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6305–6306 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙子年十一月廿九日 (3433/3493-11-29) — to —
丁丑年十二月初九日(3434/3494-12-9) |
| Coptic calendar | 513–514 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 789–790 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4557–4558 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 853–854 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 719–720 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3898–3899 |
| Holocene calendar | 10797 |
| Iranian calendar | 175–176 |
| Islamic calendar | 180–181 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 797 DCCXCVII |
| Korean calendar | 3130 |
| Minguo calendar | 1115 before ROC 民前1115年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1340 |
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Year 797 (DCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 797 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.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- July 17 – Irene of Athens orders her son, Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI, captured and deposed.
- August 15 – Irene of Athens's orders are carried out; her son is blinded, and she is declared empress the next day.
[edit] Births
- Bernard of Italy, King of Italy
- Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Pepin I of Aquitaine, King of Aquitaine
- Shinshō, Japanese Buddhist monk of the Shingon sect
[edit] Deaths
- February 4 – Guan Bo, Tang Dynasty chancellor
- February 6 – Donnchad Midi, High King of Ireland
- Constantine VI, Byzantine emperor
- Æthelberht of Whithorn, Anglo-Saxon bishop
- Cummascach mac Fogartaig, King of South Brega
- Muireadhach mac Olcobhar, Abbot of Clonfert
