798

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	760s  770s  780s  – 790s –  800s  810s  820s
Years:	795 796 797 – 798 – 799 800 801

798 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

798 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	798 DCCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	1551
Armenian calendar	247 ԹՎ ՄԽԷ
Assyrian calendar	5548
Bengali calendar	205
Berber calendar	1748
Buddhist calendar	1342
Burmese calendar	160
Byzantine calendar	6306–6307
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3494 or 3434     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3495 or 3435
Coptic calendar	514–515
Discordian calendar	1964
Ethiopian calendar	790–791
Hebrew calendar	4558–4559
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	854–855
- Shaka Samvat	720–721
- Kali Yuga	3899–3900
Holocene calendar	10798
Iranian calendar	176–177
Islamic calendar	181–182
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 17 (延暦１７年)
Julian calendar	798 DCCXCVIII
Korean calendar	3131
Minguo calendar	1114 before ROC 民前1114年
Seleucid era	1109/1110 AG
Thai solar calendar	1340–1341

King Coenwulf of Mercia conquers Kent

Year 798 (DCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 798 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

• Battle of Bornhöved: King Charlemagne froms an alliance with the Obodrites. Together with prince Drożko (Thrasco) he defeats the Nordalbian Saxons near the village of Bornhöved (modern-day Neumunster). Obliging these 'northerners' to submit and give hostages against their future good behavior.^[1] In the coming years they are granted areas of nowadays Hamburg.
• King Charles the Younger, a son of Charlemagne, conquers Corsica and Sardinia (approximate date).

Britain

• King Coenwulf of Mercia invades Gwynedd (modern Wales) and kills his rival Caradog ap Meirion during the fightings in Snowdonia. Kings Cynan and Hywel retake the throne. Coenwulf also defeats and captures king Eadberht Præn of Kent. He is blinded and his hands are cut off.^[2] He introduces his brother Cuthred as a sub-king of Kent (approximate date).
• Battle of Billington: King Eardwulf of Northumbria defeats the nobleman Wada in battle, who has killed former king Æthelred I (see 796).
• King Sigeric I of Essex abdicates and departs for a pilgrimage to Rome. He is succeeded by his son Sigered.

Arabian Empire

• King Alfonso II of Asturias campaigns against the Arab Muslims in Al-Andalus. With Frankish military support he raids into Andalusia and sacks Lisbon (modern Portugal).^[3]
• Bahlul ibn Marzuq, a Vascon-Muslim military leader, revolts in Zaragoza against the Arab-Muslim government of Al-Andalus.

By topic

Religion

• Alcuin, Anglo-Saxon monk and scholar, writes to his friend the exiled king Osbald of Northumbria in order to dissuade him.
• Theodulf, Frankish poet, is appointed bishop of Orléans. He becomes one of Charlemagne's favoured theologians.

Births

• Babak Khorramdin, Persian military leader (approximate date)
• Ignatius I, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date)

Deaths

• Abu Yusuf, Muslim jurist and chief adviser
• Caradog ap Meirion, king of Gwynedd (or 797)
• Lu Mai, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 739)
• Wonseong, king of Silla (Korea)

References

1. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 82. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
2. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, manuscript E, year 796 (798). Translation by Michael Swanton, 1996
3. Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle0. L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 109. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.