790

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	760s  770s  780s  – 790s –  800s  810s  820s
Years:	787 788 789 – 790 – 791 792 793

790 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

790 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	790 DCCXC
Ab urbe condita	1543
Armenian calendar	239 ԹՎ ՄԼԹ
Assyrian calendar	5540
Bengali calendar	197
Berber calendar	1740
Buddhist calendar	1334
Burmese calendar	152
Byzantine calendar	6298–6299
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3486 or 3426     — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3487 or 3427
Coptic calendar	506–507
Discordian calendar	1956
Ethiopian calendar	782–783
Hebrew calendar	4550–4551
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	846–847
- Shaka Samvat	712–713
- Kali Yuga	3891–3892
Holocene calendar	10790
Iranian calendar	168–169
Islamic calendar	173–174
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 9 (延暦９年)
Julian calendar	790 DCCXC
Korean calendar	3123
Minguo calendar	1122 before ROC 民前1122年
Seleucid era	1101/1102 AG
Thai solar calendar	1332–1333

Srivijaya Kingdom around the 8th century

Year 790 (DCCXC) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 790 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

• September – The Armeniac Theme located in northeastern Asia Minor (modern Turkey) revolt against empress Irene and declare the 19-year-old Constantine VI sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. Other themes follow their example and imprison their strategoi. Constantine sends his iconoclast general Michael Lachanodrakon to ensure that the Armeniacs—his closest supporters–take an oath. Irene is confined and imprisoned in her palace at Constantinople, all her eunuchs are exiled.

Europe

• Alcuin, Anglo-Saxon missionary, returns after 8 year of absence to England. During his stay at the Carolingian court of king Charlemagne in Aachen, he educates his sons Charles, Pepin and Louis. Alcuin revises the church liturgy and the Bible, and is responsible for an intellectual movement within the Frankish Kingdom.

Britain

• King Æthelred I returns to Northumbria and is restored to the throne after living in exile for 11 years. His rival Osred II is deposed, forcibly tonsured, and exiled to the Isle of Man. Æthelred then faces a rebellion by another rival, named Eardwulf. The latter is captured and hanged outside the gates to Ripon Abbey. The body is taken into the abbey where Eardwulf recovers and escapes to exile.
• King Offa of Mercia takes control of East Anglia. King Æthelberht II mints his own coins in defiance of his overlord (approximate date).

Asia

• Cambodia begins to break away from the Sumatra-based kingdom Srivijaya as a 20-year-old Cambodian prince who claims descent from the rulers of Funan is consecrated in eastern Cambodia with the title Jayavarman II. In the next 10 years he will extend his powers north into the Mekong Valley (modern Vietnam).

By topic

Religion

• Irish monks (known as the Papar), possibly members of a Hiberno-Scottish mission, reach Iceland in hide-covered coracles and begin settlements (approximate date).
• Angilbert, Frankish diplomat (primicerius palatii) of king Charlemagne, is made abbot of Saint-Riquier (Northern France).

Births

• Cyngen ap Cadell, king of Powys (Wales)
• Fātimah bint Mūsā, Muslim saint (d. 816)
• Íñigo Arista, king of Pamplona (approximate date)
• Leo IV, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 855)
• Li He, Chinese poet (d. 816)
• Lu Tong, Chinese poet (d. 835)
• Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi, Muslim military leader (d. 862)
• Ramiro I, king of Asturias (approximate date)

Deaths

• Fujiwara no Otomuro, Japanese noblewoman (b. 760)
• Torson, Frankish count of Toulouse (or 789)

References