802

This article is about the year 802. For the number, see 802 (number). For the networking standard, see IEEE 802.

For the area code, see Area code 802.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	770s  780s  790s  – 800s –  810s  820s  830s
Years:	799 800 801 – 802 – 803 804 805

802 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

802 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	802 DCCCII
Ab urbe condita	1555
Armenian calendar	251 ԹՎ ՄԾԱ
Assyrian calendar	5552
Bengali calendar	209
Berber calendar	1752
Buddhist calendar	1346
Burmese calendar	164
Byzantine calendar	6310–6311
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3498 or 3438     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3499 or 3439
Coptic calendar	518–519
Discordian calendar	1968
Ethiopian calendar	794–795
Hebrew calendar	4562–4563
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	858–859
- Shaka Samvat	724–725
- Kali Yuga	3903–3904
Holocene calendar	10802
Iranian calendar	180–181
Islamic calendar	185–187
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 21 (延暦２１年)
Julian calendar	802 DCCCII
Korean calendar	3135
Minguo calendar	1110 before ROC 民前1110年
Seleucid era	1113/1114 AG
Thai solar calendar	1344–1345

Map of the British Isles (c. 802)

King Egbert of Wessex (802–839)

Year 802 (DCCCII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• October 31 – Empress Irene is deposed after a 5-year reign, and banished to Lesbos. High-ranking patricians place Nikephoros, the minister of finance (logothetes tou genikou), on the throne. He is crowned in the Hagia Sophia at Constantinople by patriarch Tarasios as emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

Europe

• Pagan Danes invade Obodrite-ruled Schleswig to take over territory almost emptied by the forcible deportations of the Saxons by emperor Charlemagne.
• Al-Andalus: Saragossa rises against the Emirate of Córdoba. Emir Al-Hakam I sends a Muslim army under general Amrus ibn Yusuf and retakes the city.
• Krum becomes ruler (khan) of the Bulgarian Empire (until 814). During his reign the Bulgarian territory doubles in size, from the Danube to the Dniester.

Britain

• King Beorhtric of Wessex dies after drinking a chalice of poison intended by his wife, Eadburh. She flees to the court of Charlemagne, who accepts a portion of her wealth and makes her abbess. Prince Egbert returns to Wessex and is accepted as new king.
• Battle of Kempsford: Æthelmund, ealdorman of Hwicce, is killed during the battle by his rival Weohstan and levies of West Saxon Wiltshire.
• The Vikings plunder the treasures of Iona Abbey on the west coast of Scotland (approximate date).

Asia

• Prince Jayavarman declares the Khmer Empire (modern-day Cambodia) independent and establishes the kingdom of Angkor. He is reconsecrated as a world ruler (chakravartin) or god-king (devaraja) under Hindu rites.

By topic

Religion

• The Haeinsa Temple of the Jogye Order is build in Korea.

Births

• Hugh, illegitimate son of Charlemagne (d. 844)
• Ralpacan, emperor of Tibet (d. 836)

Deaths

• Æthelmund, Anglo-Saxon nobleman
• Bahlul ibn Marzuq, Muslim general
• Beorhtric, king of Wessex
• Domitian, duke of Carantania (approximate date)
• Eadburh, Anglo-Saxon princess
• Kardam, ruler (khan) of the Bulgarian Empire (or 803)
• January 11 – Paulinus II, patriarch of Aquileia (or 804)
• Rashid, Muslim regent of Idris II
• Višeslav, duke of Croatia (or 810)
• Wulfstan, Anglo-Saxon ealdorman