788

This article is about the year 788. For the number, see 788 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	750s  760s  770s  – 780s –  790s  800s  810s
Years:	785 786 787 – 788 – 789 790 791

788 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

788 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	788 DCCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1541
Armenian calendar	237 ԹՎ ՄԼԷ
Assyrian calendar	5538
Bengali calendar	195
Berber calendar	1738
Buddhist calendar	1332
Burmese calendar	150
Byzantine calendar	6296–6297
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3484 or 3424     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3485 or 3425
Coptic calendar	504–505
Discordian calendar	1954
Ethiopian calendar	780–781
Hebrew calendar	4548–4549
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	844–845
- Shaka Samvat	710–711
- Kali Yuga	3889–3890
Holocene calendar	10788
Iranian calendar	166–167
Islamic calendar	171–172
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 7 (延暦７年)
Julian calendar	788 DCCLXXXVIII
Korean calendar	3121
Minguo calendar	1124 before ROC 民前1124年
Seleucid era	1099/1100 AG
Thai solar calendar	1330–1331

Ōnakatomi no Kiyomaro (702–788)

Year 788 (DCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 788 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 – Battle of Kopidnadon: A Abbasid expeditionary force crosses the Cilician Gates into the Anatolic Theme (modern Turkey). It is confronted by two Byzantine armies at Podandos in Cappadocia who are defeated.
• Byzantine troops led by Adalgis, son of former Lombard king Desiderius, invade in southern Italy. His attemps are thwarted by the Franks who attack territories in Benevento, obtaining notably the annexion of Chieti (Spoleto).

Europe

• King Charlemagne conquers Bavaria and incorporates it into the Frankish Kingdom. Duke Tassilo III is deposed and banished to a monastery.
• Grimoald III, Lombard duke of Benevento, is installed as semi-client by king Charles the Younger (son of Charlemagne) at Benevento (Italy).
• The Avars who are allied with Tassilo III invade East Francia (modern Germany). This forms the earlier stage of a Frankish-Avar conflict.
• King Mauregatus of Asturias dies after a 5-year reign and is succeeded by Bermudo I as ruler of Asturias (modern Spain).

Britain

• King Ælfwald I of Northumbria is murdered, probably at Chesters, by the patricius (ealdorman) Sicga. He is succeeded by his cousin Osred II.

Arabian Empire

• Abd al-Rahman I, emir of Córdoba, dies after a 32-year reign and is succeeded by his son Hisham I.

By topic

Religion

• Start of the period covered in Adam of Bremen's historical treatise of the Archbishopric of Hamburg.
• Founding of Enryaku-ji temple complex by Saichō, a Buddhist monk, on Mount Hiei in Ōtsu (Japan).

Births

• Abd al-Rahman II, Muslim emir of Córdoba (d. 852)
• Adi Shankara, Indian philosopher and theologian (d. 832)
• Aejang, king of Silla (Korea) (d. 809)
• Ida of Herzfeld, Frankish noblewoman (approximate date)
• Methodios I, patriarch of Constantinople (or 800)

Deaths

• Abd al-Rahman I, Muslim emir of Córdoba (b. 731)
• Adalgis, king and co-regent of the Lombards
• Ælfwald I, king of Northumbria
• Hnabi, duke of the Alemanni (approximate date)
• Mauregatus, king of Asturias (or 789)
• Mazu Daoyi, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (b. 709)
• Ōnakatomi no Kiyomaro, Japanese nobleman (b. 702)