799

This article is about the year 799. For the number (and other uses), see 799 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	760s  770s  780s  – 790s –  800s  810s  820s
Years:	796 797 798 – 799 – 800 801 802

799 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

799 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	799 DCCXCIX
Ab urbe condita	1552
Armenian calendar	248 ԹՎ ՄԽԸ
Assyrian calendar	5549
Bahá'í calendar	-1045–-1044
Bengali calendar	206
Berber calendar	1749
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1343
Burmese calendar	161
Byzantine calendar	6307–6308
Chinese calendar	戊寅年十一月廿一日 (3435/3495-11-21) — to — 己卯年十二月初一日 (3436/3496-12-1)
Coptic calendar	515–516
Ethiopian calendar	791–792
Hebrew calendar	4559–4560
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	855–856
- Shaka Samvat	721–722
- Kali Yuga	3900–3901
Holocene calendar	10799
Iranian calendar	177–178
Islamic calendar	182–183
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3132
Minguo calendar	1113 before ROC 民前1113年
Thai solar calendar	1342

Year 799 (DCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 799 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 topic

Religion

• 29 November – Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to Rome.

Deaths

• April 13 – Paul the Deacon, Benedictine monk and historian
• September 4 – Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (b. 745)
• Huai Su, Buddhist monk and Tang Dynasty calligrapher (b. 737)