780s

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Events

780

By place

Byzantine Empire

September 8 - Emperor Leo IV ("the Khazar") dies after a 5-year reign, in which he has been dominated by his wife Irene of Athens, an iconodule. He is succeeded by his 9-year-old son Constantine VI; due to his minority, Irene and her chief minister Staurakios exercise a regency over him.^[1]

Europe

Saxon Wars: King Charlemagne decrees the death penalty for any subdued Saxon refusing Christian baptism. Meanwhile Widukind builds up 'rebel' strength in northern Saxony.^[2]
The city of Osnabrück, developed as marketplace, is founded by Charlemagne (approximate date).

Britain

The city of Aldwych rises as an important trading centre in London, under Mercian control. King Offa of Mercia possibly establishes a royal palaces at Aldermanbury, on the site of the old Roman Cripplegate fort and amphitheatre (approximate date).

Asia

King Hyegong of Silla is killed in a revolt, terminating the kingly line of succession of former ruler Muyeol. He is the architect of Silla's unification of the Korean Peninsula (see 668).

By topic

Religion

Borobudur, a Buddhist temple complex in Magelang (modern Indonesia), is begun (approximate date).

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Significant people

References

↑ Cutler & Hollingsworth (1991), pp. 501–502.
↑ David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 19. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5.

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