784

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	750s  760s  770s  – 780s –  790s  800s  810s
Years:	781 782 783 – 784 – 785 786 787

784 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

784 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	784 DCCLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1537
Armenian calendar	233 ԹՎ ՄԼԳ
Assyrian calendar	5534
Bengali calendar	191
Berber calendar	1734
Buddhist calendar	1328
Burmese calendar	146
Byzantine calendar	6292–6293
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3480 or 3420     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3481 or 3421
Coptic calendar	500–501
Discordian calendar	1950
Ethiopian calendar	776–777
Hebrew calendar	4544–4545
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	840–841
- Shaka Samvat	706–707
- Kali Yuga	3885–3886
Holocene calendar	10784
Iranian calendar	162–163
Islamic calendar	167–168
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 3 (延暦３年)
Julian calendar	784 DCCLXXXIV
Korean calendar	3117
Minguo calendar	1128 before ROC 民前1128年
Seleucid era	1095/1096 AG
Thai solar calendar	1326–1327

King Charlemagne and the Saxons (1869)

Year 784 (DCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 784 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

Europe

• Saxon Wars: King Charlemagne begins an campaign in northern Saxony. He ravages Eastphalian territory as far as the Elbe River while his son, Charles the Younger, defeats a Saxon force in the Lippe Valley. Bad weather hinders Charlemagne's winter campaign in southern Saxony.^[1]
• Winter – Charlemagne returns to Eresburg and builds a church, probably on the site of the Irminsul (a pagan religious site). Frankish forces based at Eresburg attack 'rebel' Saxon settlements and take control of the roads. Charlemagne himself takes part in some of these raids.^[2]

Arabian Empire

• Abd al-Rahman I, emir of Córdoba (Al-Andalus), begins with the construction of the Prayer Hall, the Great Mosque of Córdoba. He uses the mosque (originally called Aljama Mosque) as an adjunct to his palace and names it in honour of his wife.

Asia

• The Japanese begin a war against the Ainu – in the north on the main island of Honshu. Emperor Kanmu wishes to be free of influence from the Buddhist monasteries around Nara (then called Heijō), and moves the capital to Nagaoka, ending the Nara period.

By topic

Religion

• August 30 – Paul IV abdicates as patriarch of Constantinople.
• December 25 – Tarasios is elected patriarch of Constantinople.

Births

• Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi, Muslim historian (d. 845)
• Theodrada, daughter of Charlemagne (approximate date)

Deaths

• Alberic, bishop of Utrecht
• May 4 – Arbeo, bishop of Freising
• Autpert Ambrose, Frankish abbot
• July 16 – Fulrad, Frankish abbot (b. 710)
• Isa ibn Musa, Muslim governor (or 783)
• Paul IV, patriarch of Constantinople
• Vergilius, bishop of Salzburg

References

1. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 20. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
2. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 72. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5