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
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Births – Deaths
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Establishments – Disestablishments

784 in various 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	705–706
- Kali Yuga	3884–3885
Holocene calendar	10784
Iranian calendar	162–163
Islamic calendar	167–168
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 3 (延暦３年)
Javanese calendar	679–680
Julian calendar	784 DCCLXXXIV
Korean calendar	3117
Minguo calendar	1128 before ROC 民前1128年
Nanakshahi calendar	−684
Seleucid era	1095/1096 AG
Thai solar calendar	1326–1327

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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

Saxon Wars: King Charlemagne begins a 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]

Abd al-Rahman I, Muslim 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.

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.

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

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