776

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	740s  750s  760s  – 770s –  780s  790s  800s
Years:	773 774 775 – 776 – 777 778 779

776 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

776 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	776 DCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1529
Armenian calendar	225 ԹՎ ՄԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	5526
Bengali calendar	183
Berber calendar	1726
Buddhist calendar	1320
Burmese calendar	138
Byzantine calendar	6284–6285
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3472 or 3412     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3473 or 3413
Coptic calendar	492–493
Discordian calendar	1942
Ethiopian calendar	768–769
Hebrew calendar	4536–4537
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	832–833
- Shaka Samvat	698–699
- Kali Yuga	3877–3878
Holocene calendar	10776
Iranian calendar	154–155
Islamic calendar	159–160
Japanese calendar	Hōki 7 (宝亀７年)
Julian calendar	776 DCCLXXVI
Korean calendar	3109
Minguo calendar	1136 before ROC 民前1136年
Seleucid era	1087/1088 AG
Thai solar calendar	1318–1319

Ruins of Castle Syburg (near Dortmund)

Year 776 (DCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 776 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

Byzantine Empire

• April 24 – Emperor Leo IV ("the Khazar") appoints his 5-year-old son Constantine VI to co-ruler of the Byzantine Empire. This leads to an uprising of Leo's half-brothers including Caesar Nikephoros, the second son of former emperor Constantine V. The revolt is quickly suppressed, Leo has the conspirators blinded, tonsured and exiled to Cherson (Southern Crimea) under guard.^[1]

Europe

• King Charlemagne spends Easter in Treviso (Northern Italy) after putting down a rebellion in Friuli and Spoleto. He removes Hrodgaud of Friuli from power and reforms the duchy as the March of Friuli (military frontier district).^[2] Co-conspirators who support the revolt are Arechis II, duke of Benevento, and Adalgis, son of former Lombard king Desiderius. Frankish counts are placed in the cities of Friuli.
• Saxon Wars: The Saxons again revolt against Christianity and Frankish rule. Eresburg falls, but a Saxon assault upon the castle of Syburg (near Dortmund) fails. Charlemagne hurriedly returns from Italy, launching a counter-offensive which defeat the Saxons. Most of their leaders are summoned to the Lippe at the town of Bad Lippspringe (North Rhine-Westphalia) to submit formally to Charlemagne.^[3]

Britain

• Battle of Otford: King Egbert II of Kent defeats the Mercians under king Offa (near Otford) and re-asserts himself as ruler of Kent.

Births

• Al-Jahiz, Afro-Muslim scholar and writer (d. 868)
• Bai Xingjian, Chinese poet and writer (d. 826)
• Lu Sui, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 835)
• Sahnun ibn Sa'id, Muslim jurist (or 777)
• Tahir ibn Husayn, Muslim governor (or 775)

Deaths

• Cellach mac Dúnchada, king of Leinster (Ireland)
• Cináed Ciarrge mac Cathussaig, Dál nAraide king
• Flaithniadh mac Congal, abbot of Clonfert
• Hrodgaud, duke of Friuli (Italy)
• Humayd ibn Qahtaba, Muslim military leader
• Nuada ua Bolcain, abbot of Tuam (Ireland)

References

1. The Chronicle of Theophanes Anni Mundi 6095–6305 (A.D. 602–813): Tr. Harry Turtledove (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), p. 137
2. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 15. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
3. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5