788

Year 788 (DCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 788th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 788th year of the 1st millennium, the 88th year of the 8th century, and the 9th year of the 780s decade. 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century 8th century 9th century
Decades:	760s 770s 780s 790s 800s
Years:	785 786 787 788 789 790 791

788 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	788 DCCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1541
Armenian calendar	237 ԹՎ ՄԼԷ
Assyrian calendar	5538
Balinese saka calendar	709–710
Bengali calendar	195
Berber calendar	1738
Buddhist calendar	1332
Burmese calendar	150
Byzantine calendar	6296–6297
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3485 or 3278     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3486 or 3279
Coptic calendar	504–505
Discordian calendar	1954
Ethiopian calendar	780–781
Hebrew calendar	4548–4549
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	844–845
- Shaka Samvat	709–710
- Kali Yuga	3888–3889
Holocene calendar	10788
Iranian calendar	166–167
Islamic calendar	171–172
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 7 (延暦７年)
Javanese calendar	683–684
Julian calendar	788 DCCLXXXVIII
Korean calendar	3121
Minguo calendar	1124 before ROC 民前1124年
Nanakshahi calendar	−680
Seleucid era	1099/1100 AG
Thai solar calendar	1330–1331
Tibetan calendar	阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 914 or 533 or −239     — to — 阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 915 or 534 or −238

Ōnakatomi no Kiyomaro (702–788)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• September – Battle of Kopidnadon: An Abbasid expeditionary force crosses the Cilician Gates into the Anatolic Theme (modern Turkey). It is confronted by two Byzantine armies at Podandos in Cappadocia, who are defeated.
• Byzantine troops led by Adalgis, son of former Lombard king Desiderius, invade southern Italy. His attempts are thwarted by the Franks, who attack territories in Benevento, obtaining notably the annexion of Chieti (Spoleto).

Europe

• King Charlemagne conquers Bavaria, and incorporates it into the Frankish Kingdom. Duke Tassilo III is deposed, and banished to a monastery.
• Grimoald III, Lombard duke of Benevento, is installed as semi-client by King Charles the Younger (son of Charlemagne) at Benevento (Italy).
• The Avars, who are allied with Tassilo III, invade East Francia (modern Germany). This begins the Frankish-Avar conflict.
• King Mauregatus of Asturias dies after a 5-year reign, and is succeeded by Bermudo I as ruler of Asturias (modern Spain).
• Abd al-Rahman I, emir of Córdoba, dies after a 32-year reign and is succeeded by his son Hisham I.
• The earliest recorded tornado in Europe struck Freising in 788.

Britain

• King Ælfwald I of Northumbria is murdered, probably at Chesters, by the patricius (ealdorman) Sicga. He is succeeded by his cousin Osred II.

Abbasid Caliphate

Gold dinar of caliph Harun al-Rashid dated AH 171 (AD 788)

• September – Battle of Kopidnadon: An Abbasid expeditionary force against the Byzantine Empire crosses the Cilician Gates into the Anatolic Theme. The Abbasid army launches an invasion of Byzantine Asia Minor, and is confronted by a Byzantine force at Kopidnadon. The battle results in an Abbasid victory.
• Idris ibn Abdallah, known as the "founder of Morocco", settles in Volubilis, beginning the reign of the Idrisid Dynasty (Morocco had effectively been independent from the Arab caliphates since the Great Berber Revolt).

By topic

Religion

• The period covered in Adam of Bremen's historical treatise of the Archbishopric of Hamburg begins.
• The Enryaku-ji temple complex is founded by Saichō, a Buddhist monk, on Mount Hiei in Ōtsu (Japan).

Births

• Abu Tammam, Muslim poet (d. 845)
• Adi Shankara, Indian philosopher and theologian (d. 832)
• Aejang, king of Silla (Korea) (d. 809)
• Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar, Muslim historian (d. 870)
• Ida of Herzfeld, Frankish duchess and saint (approximate date)
• Li Zaiyi, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 837)
• Methodios I, patriarch of Constantinople (or 800)

Deaths

• September 23 – Ælfwald I, king of Northumbria
• Abd al-Rahman I, Muslim emir of Córdoba (b. 731)
• Adalgis, king and co-regent of the Lombards
• Hnabi, duke of the Alemanni (approximate date)
• Mauregatus, king of Asturias (or 789)
• Mazu Daoyi, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (b. 709)
• Ōnakatomi no Kiyomaro, Japanese nobleman (b. 702)

References

Sources

• Treadgold, Warren (1988). The Byzantine Revival, 780–842. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1462-4.