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This article is about the year 791. For the number, see 791 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 760s 770s 780s – 790s – 800s 810s 820s |
| Years: | 788 789 790 – 791 – 792 793 794 |
| 791 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 791 DCCXCI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1544 |
| Armenian calendar | 240 ԹՎ ՄԽ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5541 |
| Bengali calendar | 198 |
| Berber calendar | 1741 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1335 |
| Burmese calendar | 153 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6299–6300 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3487 or 3427 — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3488 or 3428 |
| Coptic calendar | 507–508 |
| Discordian calendar | 1957 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 783–784 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4551–4552 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 847–848 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 713–714 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3892–3893 |
| Holocene calendar | 10791 |
| Iranian calendar | 169–170 |
| Islamic calendar | 174–175 |
| Japanese calendar | Enryaku 10 (延暦１０年) |
| Julian calendar | 791 DCCXCI |
| Korean calendar | 3124 |
| Minguo calendar | 1121 before ROC 民前1121年 |
| Seleucid era | 1102/1103 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1333–1334 |
King Alfonso II of Asturias (12th century)
Year 791 (DCCXCI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 791 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
- The Avars, a pagan Asian nomadic horde that has settled down in what is today Hungary, invade Friuli and Bavaria. King Charlemagne assembles a Frankish army and marched down the Danube River to ravage Avar territory. A Frankish-Lombard expeditionary force under his son Pepin (king of the Lombards) invade the Drava valley and devastate Pannonia.
- Summer – Charlemagne loses most of his riding and baggage horses during an equine epidemic; many Saxons take advantage of Charlemagne's Avar setback and rebel once more.[1]
- September 14 – Alfonso II, the son of former king Fruela I, becomes ruler of Asturias (Northern Spain). He moves the capital to Oviedo, the commercial centre of the region.
Britain
- Princes Ælf and Ælfwine of Northumbria, the sons of former king Ælfwald I, are persuaded to leave their sanctuary in York Minster and are immediately forcibly drowned in Wonwaldremere at the instigation of king Æthelred I.
Africa
- Emir Idris I, founder of the Idrisid Dynasty and kingdom of Morocco, is poisoned on orders of caliph Harun al-Rashid.[2][3] He is succeeded by his son Idris II (just only two months old) and is raised by his mother Kenza among the Berbers of Volubilis.
Births
Deaths
- Artgal mac Cathail, king of Connacht (Ireland)
- Idris I, emir and founder of the Idrisid Dynasty (b. 745)
- Wermad, bishop of Trier
- Zhang Xiaozhong, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 730)
References
- ↑ David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 79. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
- ↑ Rogerson 2010, p. 238.
- ↑ Volubilis Project - History.
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