790
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 790 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 790 DCCXC |
| Ab urbe condita | 1543 |
| Armenian calendar | 239 ԹՎ ՄԼԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5540 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 711–712 |
| Bengali calendar | 197 |
| Berber calendar | 1740 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1334 |
| Burmese calendar | 152 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6298–6299 |
| Chinese calendar | 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3487 or 3280 — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3488 or 3281 |
| Coptic calendar | 506–507 |
| Discordian calendar | 1956 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 782–783 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4550–4551 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 846–847 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 711–712 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3890–3891 |
| Holocene calendar | 10790 |
| Iranian calendar | 168–169 |
| Islamic calendar | 173–174 |
| Japanese calendar | Enryaku 9 (延暦９年) |
| Javanese calendar | 685–686 |
| Julian calendar | 790 DCCXC |
| Korean calendar | 3123 |
| Minguo calendar | 1122 before ROC 民前1122年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −678 |
| Seleucid era | 1101/1102 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1332–1333 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 916 or 535 or −237 — to — 阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 917 or 536 or −236 |
Year 790 (DCCXC) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 790 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
Byzantine Empire
- September – The Armeniac Theme located in northeastern Asia Minor (modern Turkey) revolt against empress Irene and declare the 19-year-old Constantine VI sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. Other themes follow their example and imprison their strategoi. Constantine sends his iconoclast general Michael Lachanodrakon to ensure that the Armeniacs—his closest supporters–take an oath. Irene is confined and imprisoned in her palace at Constantinople, all her eunuchs are exiled.
Europe
- Alcuin, Anglo-Saxon missionary, returns after 8 year of absence to England. During his stay at the Carolingian court of king Charlemagne in Aachen, he educates his sons Charles, Pepin and Louis. Alcuin revises the church liturgy and the Bible, and is responsible for an intellectual movement within the Frankish Kingdom.
Britain
- King Æthelred I returns to Northumbria and is restored to the throne after living in exile for 11 years. His rival Osred II is deposed, forcibly tonsured, and exiled to the Isle of Man. Æthelred then faces a rebellion by another rival, named Eardwulf. The latter is captured and hanged outside the gates to Ripon Abbey. The body is taken into the abbey where Eardwulf recovers and escapes to exile.
- King Offa of Mercia takes control of East Anglia. King Æthelberht II mints his own coins in defiance of his overlord (approximate date).
Asia
- Cambodia begins to break away from the Sumatra-based kingdom Srivijaya as a 20-year-old Cambodian prince who claims descent from the rulers of Funan is consecrated in eastern Cambodia with the title Jayavarman II. In the next 10 years he will extend his powers north into the Mekong Valley (modern Vietnam).
By topic
Religion
- Irish monks (known as the Papar), possibly members of a Hiberno-Scottish mission, reach Iceland in hide-covered coracles and begin settlements (approximate date).
- Angilbert, Frankish diplomat (primicerius palatii) of king Charlemagne, is made abbot of Saint-Riquier (Northern France).
Births
- Cyngen ap Cadell, king of Powys (Wales)
- Fātimah bint Mūsā, Muslim saint (d. 816)
- Íñigo Arista, king of Pamplona (approximate date)
- Leo IV, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 855)
- Li He, Chinese poet (d. 816)
- Lu Tong, Chinese poet (d. 835)
- Ramiro I, king of Asturias (approximate date)
Deaths
- Fujiwara no Otomuro, Japanese noblewoman (b. 760)
- Torson, Frankish count of Toulouse (or 789)