Eanbald I, Died: August 10, 796 August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events December - Coenwulf becomes king of Mercia. ...

Eanbald was elected Archbishop of York in 780. He witnessed the first attacks of the Danes on Northumbria. The country was so widely ravaged, that in 790, the Yorkist scholar, Alcuin, deserted the city for the Frankish Court of the Emperor Charlemagne. Eanbald died at the monastery of Etlete or Edete. Events Constantine VI becomes Byzantine Emperor with Irene as guardian. ... Section from Shepherds map of the British Isles about 802 AD showing the kingdom of Northumbria Northumbria is primarily the name of an Anglian kingdom which was formed in Great Britain at the beginning of the 7th century, and of the much smaller earldom which succeeded the kingdom. ... Events A revolt against Empress Irene leads to Constantine VI being declared sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. ... Rabanus Maurus (left), supported by Alcuin (middle), presents his work to Otgar of Mainz Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus or Ealhwine (about 735-May 19, 804) was a monk from York, England. ... Charlemagne (ca. ...