| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 750s 760s 770s – 780s – 790s 800s 810s |
| Years: | 785 786 787 – 788 – 789 790 791 |
| 788 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 788 DCCLXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1541 |
| Armenian calendar | 237 ԹՎ ՄԼԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5538 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1056–-1055 |
| Bengali calendar | 195 |
| Berber calendar | 1738 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1332 |
| Burmese calendar | 150 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6296–6297 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁卯年十一月十八日 (3424/3484-11-18) — to —
戊辰年十一月廿九日(3425/3485-11-29) |
| Coptic calendar | 504–505 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 780–781 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4548–4549 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 844–845 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 710–711 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3889–3890 |
| Holocene calendar | 10788 |
| Iranian calendar | 166–167 |
| Islamic calendar | 171–172 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3121 |
| Minguo calendar | 1124 before ROC 民前1124年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1331 |
Year 788 (DCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 788 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.