Year 781 (DCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 781 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.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| Gregorian calendar | 781 DCCLXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1534 |
| Armenian calendar | 230 ԹՎ ՄԼ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5531 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 702–703 |
| Bengali calendar | 188 |
| Berber calendar | 1731 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1325 |
| Burmese calendar | 143 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6289–6290 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3478 or 3271 — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3479 or 3272 |
| Coptic calendar | 497–498 |
| Discordian calendar | 1947 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 773–774 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4541–4542 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 837–838 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 702–703 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3881–3882 |
| Holocene calendar | 10781 |
| Iranian calendar | 159–160 |
| Islamic calendar | 164–165 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōki 12 / Ten'ō 1 (天応元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 676–677 |
| Julian calendar | 781 DCCLXXXI |
| Korean calendar | 3114 |
| Minguo calendar | 1131 before ROC 民前1131年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −687 |
| Seleucid era | 1092/1093 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1323–1324 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 907 or 526 or −246 — to — 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 908 or 527 or −245 |
Events
editBy place
editEurope
edit- King Charlemagne has his son Carloman (renamed Pepin) anointed "King of Italy", and he is crowned by Pope Adrian I with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. His younger brother Charles I is anointed king of Aquitaine, and Louis the Pious (only 3-years old) is appointed sub-king of Italy and Aquitaine, following the conversion of Aquitaine from a Duchy to a sub-kingdom.[1]
- Charlemagne meets Alcuin, Anglo-Saxon missionary, in Italy, and invites him to Aachen, where he becomes Charlemagne's chief adviser on religious and educational matters (approximate date).
- The Frankish currency called the livre carolingienne is minted for the first time (approximate date).
Asia
edit- Yang Yan, Chinese statesman, commits suicide after being accused of bribery and corruption. He is credited with reforming the tax system for peasants, reducing the power of the aristocratic classes, and eliminating their tax-free estates.
- April 30 – Emperor Kōnin of Japan abdicates the throne after an 11-year reign, in favour of his half-Korean son, Kanmu.
- July 31 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji occurs (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
- New city of Bian (汴) is constructed on the site of Kaifeng during the Tang dynasty (China).
- Marriage of Abbasid prince Harun ibn al-Mahdi (future caliph Harun al-Rashid) and Zubaidah bint Ja'far.
By topic
editReligion
edit- Charlemagne defines the Papal territory (see Papal States). He codifies the regions over which the pope would be temporal sovereign: the Duchy of Rome is expanded by Ravenna, the Duchy of the Pentapolis, parts of the Duchy of Benevento, Tuscany, Corsica and Lombardy.
- Nestorians in China build Christian monasteries, and erect the Nestorian Stele (approximate date).
Births
edit- Harith al-Muhasibi, founder of the Baghdad School of Islamic philosophy, and a teacher of the Sufi masters Junayd al-Baghdadi and Sari al-Saqti (d. 857)
Deaths
edit- Alchmund, bishop of Hexham (approximate date)
- King Fergus mac Echdach of Dál Riata (Scotland)
- Guo Ziyi, general of the Tang dynasty (b. 697)
- Isonokami no Yakatsugu, Japanese nobleman (b. 723)
- Yang Yan, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 727)
References
edit- ^ Matthias Becher (2003). Charlemagne. Yale University Press. pp. 127–. ISBN 978-0-300-10758-6.