795
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 760s 770s 780s – 790s – 800s 810s 820s |
| Years: | 792 793 794 – 795 – 796 797 798 |
| 795 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 795 DCCXCV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1548 |
| Armenian calendar | 244 ԹՎ ՄԽԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5545 |
| Bengali calendar | 202 |
| Berber calendar | 1745 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1339 |
| Burmese calendar | 157 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6303–6304 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3491 or 3431 — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3492 or 3432 |
| Coptic calendar | 511–512 |
| Discordian calendar | 1961 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 787–788 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4555–4556 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 851–852 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 717–718 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3896–3897 |
| Holocene calendar | 10795 |
| Iranian calendar | 173–174 |
| Islamic calendar | 178–179 |
| Japanese calendar | Enryaku 14 (延暦１４年) |
| Julian calendar | 795 DCCXCV |
| Korean calendar | 3128 |
| Minguo calendar | 1117 before ROC 民前1117年 |
| Seleucid era | 1106/1107 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1337–1338 |
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Pope Leo III (750–816)
Year 795 (DCCXCV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 795 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
Europe
- Saxon War: The Slav Obodrites under their ruler Witzan, attack the northern Saxons in Liuni. He is killed in a ambush and succeeded by his son Drożko (Thrasco) who becomes a Carolingian dux. King Charlemagne leads an Frankish expeditionary force north from Mainz and marches to the Elbe where eastern Saxon rebels again surrender.[1]
- Charlemagne creates the Spanish March, a buffer zone beyond the former province of Septimania. A group of Iberian lordships form a defensive barrier between the Umayyad Moors of Al-Andalus (modern Spain) and the Frankish Kingdom.
Britain
- Quarrels between the kings Cynan Dindaethwy and Hywel leave the way open for Caradog ap Meirion (the House of Rhos) to usurp the throne of Gwynedd (modern Wales).
- King Offa of Mercia receives diplomatic gifts from Charlemagne. He re-founds St. Albans Abbey, supposedly in thanks for overrunning East Anglia (approximate date).
- The earliest recorded Viking raid on Ireland, they attack the monasteries at Iona (Inner Hebrides), Inishbofin and Inishmurray (approximate date).
By topic
Religion
- December 25 – Pope Adrian I, age 95, dies after a 23-year reign and is succeeded by Leo III as the 96th pope of Rome.
- Paul the Deacon, a Benedictine monk at Monte Cassino, completes the History of the Lombards (approximate date).
Births
- Æthelwulf, king of Wessex (approximate date)
- Babak Khorramdin, Persian military leader (or 798)
- Bernard of Septimania, Frankish duke (d. 844)
- Judith of Bavaria, Frankish queen (or 797/805)
- Lothair I, king and emperor of the Franks (d. 855)
- Mu Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 824)
- Nithard, Frankish historian (d. 844)
Deaths
- December 25 - Adrian I, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 700)
- Ælfthryth of Crowland, Anglo-Saxon princess
- Malik ibn Anas, founder of the Maliki School (b. 711)
- Witzan, Obodrite prince
References
- ↑ David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 81. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5