Events Saga succeeds Heizei as emperor of Japan. ... Events October 1 - A man with a sword makes an attempt on emperor Nicephorus Is life. ... Events July 26 - Battle of Pliska: Nicephorus I is defeated by the Bulgar khan Krum, and is succeeded by Stauracius as Byzantine emperor. ... Events Births April 12 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (d. ... Events Louis the Pious succeeds Charlemagne as king of the Franks and Emperor. ... Events An iconoclastic synod is held. ... Events Frankish king Louis the Pious crowned emperor. ... Events Louis the Pious divides his empire among his sons. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century Decades: 730s - 740s _ 750s - 760s - 770s - 780s - 790s - 800s - 810s - 820s - 830s Years: 780 781 782 783 784 785 786 787 788 789 Events and trends: Charlemagne expands the Frankish kingdom by gains in Saxony, Spain. ... Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century Decades: 740s - 750s - 760s _ 770s - 780s - 790s - 800s - 810s - 820s _ 830s - 840s Years: 790 791 792 793 794 795 796 797 798 799 800 Events and trends: In 793, the Vikings sack the monastery of Lindisfarne. ... Centuries: 8th century - 9th century - 10th century Decades: 750s 760s 770s 780s 790s - 800s - 810s 820s 830s 840s 850s Years: 800 801 802 803 804 805 806 807 808 809 Significant Events and Trends Swedish town of Birka founded as a centre of trade on the island of Björk... Centuries: 8th century - 9th century - 10th century Decades: 760s - 770s _ 780s - 790s - 800s - 810s - 820s - 830s - 840s - 850s - 860s Years: 810 811 812 813 814 815 816 817 818 819 Trends and events: 814 - Charlemagne dies; transfer of united territory to Louis the Pious. ... Centuries: 8th century - 9th century - 10th century Decades: 770s - 780s _ 790s - 800s - 810s - 820s - 830s - 840s - 850s - 860s - 870s Years: 820 821 822 823 824 825 826 827 828 829 Events: Egbert of Wessex rises to the position of Bretwalda. ... Centuries: 8th century - 9th century - 10th century Decades: 780s - 790s _ 800s - 810s - 820s - 830s - 840s - 850s - 860s - 870s - 880s Years: 830 831 832 833 834 835 836 837 838 839 Events: The first Swedes arrive in Russia. ... Centuries: 8th century - 9th century - 10th century Decades: 790s - 800s _ 810s - 820s - 830s - 840s - 850s - 860s - 870s - 880s - 890s Years: 840 841 842 843 844 845 846 847 848 849 Events: After the death of Louis the Pious, his sons Charles the Bald, Louis the German and Lothair II... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... (7th century — 8th century — 9th century — other centuries) Events The Iberian peninsula is taken by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost 8 centuries of Muslim presence there. ... ( 8th century - 9th century - 10th century - other centuries) Events Beowulf might have been written down in this century, though it could also have been in the 8th century Reign of Charlemagne, and concurrent (and controversially labeled) Carolingian Renaissance in western Europe Viking attacks on Europe begin Oseberg ship burial The... ( 9th century - 10th century - 11th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000. ...

Events

• June 22 - Byzantine Emperor Michael I is defeated in a war against the Bulgarians.
• July 12 - A revolt puts Leo V on the throne of the Byzantine Empire; former emperor Michael becomes a monk. Beginning of the Second Iconoclastic Period.
• Louis the Pious crowned co-emperor of the Franks with his father Charlemagne.
• Baghdad school of astronomy opened by Al Mamon.
• Third Council of Tours: priests are ordered to preach in the vernacular (either Vulgar Latin or German)
• The Bulgars capture Adrianople.

June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. ... The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, a Christian state of the Greek nation, centred at its capital in Constantinople. ... Michael I on a contemporary coin Michael I Rhangabes, an obscure nobleman who had married Procopia, the daughter of Nicephorus I, and been made master of the palace. ... July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 172 days remaining. ... This article is about the Byzantine Emperor. ... The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, a Christian state of the Greek nation, centred at its capital in Constantinople. ... Michael I on a contemporary coin Michael I Rhangabes, an obscure nobleman who had married Procopia, the daughter of Nicephorus I, and been made master of the palace. ... A Roman Catholic monk A monk is a person who practices monasticism, adopting a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle, usually in community with others following the same path. ... Literally, iconoclasm is the destruction of religious icons and other sacred images or monuments, usually for religious or political motives. ... Louis the Pious (also known as Louis I, Louis the Fair and Louis the Debonaire, German form: Ludwig der Fromme, French form: Louis le Pieux or Louis le Débonnaire, Spanish form: Ludovico Pío) (April 16, 778 - June 20, 840) was Emperor and King of the Franks from 814... The Franks were one of several west Germanic tribes who entered the late Roman Empire from Frisia as foederati and established a lasting realm in an area that covers most of modern-day France and the region of Franconia in Germany, forming the historic kernel of both these two modern... A Frankish king, like Charlemagne, (center) depicted in the Sacramentary of Charles the Bald (about 870) Charlemagne (c. ... Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris) is a blanket term covering the vernacular dialects of the Latin language spoken mostly in the western provinces of the Roman Empire until those dialects, diverging still further, evolved into the early Romance languages — a distinction usually assigned to about the ninth century. ... Bulgars (also Bolgars or proto-Bulgarians) a people of Central Asia, probably originally Pamirian, whose branches became Slavicized and Turkic over time. ... Edirne is a city in (Thrace), the westernmost part of Turkey, close to the borders with Greece and Bulgaria. ...

Births

Deaths

• Abu Nuwas, poet