790s

The 790s decade ran from January 1, 790, t o December 31, 799.

790

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By place

Byzantine Empire

• September – The Armeniac Theme, located in northeastern Asia Minor (modern Turkey), revolts against Empress Irene, and declares the 19-year-old Constantine VI sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. Other themes follow its 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 an 8-year absence) to England. During his stay at the Carolingian court of King Charlemagne in Aachen, he has educated 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, supposedly reach Iceland in hide-covered coracles, and begin settlements (approximate date). However, the evidence for this is scant.
• Angilbert, Frankish diplomat (primicerius palatii) of King Charlemagne, is made abbot of Saint-Riquier (Northern France).
• Joseph is consecrated Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch

Significant people

• Harun al-Rashid
• Charlemagne
• Byzantine Empress Irene
• Zubaidah bint Ja'far
• Offa of Mercia
• Alfonso II of Asturias

Births

Transcluding articles: 790, 791, 792, 793, 794, 795, 796, 797, 798, and 799

790

• Athanasia of Aegina, Byzantine noblewoman, adviser and saint (approximate date)
• 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)^[23]
• Li He, Chinese poet (d. 816)^[24]
• Lu Tong, Chinese poet (d. 835)
• Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi, Muslim military leader (d. 862)
• Ramiro I, king of Asturias (approximate date)

791

• Idris II, Muslim emir of Morocco (d. 828)
• Pei Xiu, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (d. 864)

792

• Abd al-Rahman II, Muslim emir of Córdoba (d. 852)
• Abo, Japanese prince (d. 842)
• Adrian II, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 872)
• Bai Minzhong, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 861)
• Virasena, Indian mathematician (d. 853)

793

• Arnulf of Sens, Frankish nobleman (or 794)
• Li Ning, prince of the Tang Dynasty (d. 812)
• Theophylact, Byzantine co-emperor (approximate date)
• Wei Mo, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 858)
• Wu Yuanji, general of the Tang Dynasty (or 783)
• Zhou Chi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 851)

794

• Arnulf of Sens, Frankish nobleman (or 793)
• Du Cong, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty

795

• Æthelwulf, king of Wessex (approximate date)
• Babak Khorramdin, Persian military leader (or 798)
• Bernard of Septimania, Frankish duke (d. 844)
• Gregory IV, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 844)
• Judith of Bavaria, Frankish queen (or 797/805)
• Landulf I, gastald (or count) of Capua (approximate date)
• Lothair I, king and emperor of the Franks (d. 855)
• Mu Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 824)
• Nithard, Frankish historian (d. 844)
• Renaud d'Herbauges, Frankish nobleman (d. 843)

796

• Al-Mu'tasim, Muslim caliph (d. 842)
• Dhul-Nun al-Misri, Egyptian scholar and Sufi (d. 859)
• Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub al-Juzajani, Muslim hadith scholar
• Liu Zhuan, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 858)
• Lü Dongbin, Chinese scholar and poet
• Xiao Fang, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 875)

797

• Bernard of Italy, king of the Lombards (d. 818)
• Ignatius I, patriarch of Constantinople (or 798)
• Judith of Bavaria, Frankish empress (or 805)
• Meinrad of Einsiedeln, German hermit (d. 861)
• Pepin I of Aquitaine, king of Aquitaine (d. 838)
• Shinshō, Japanese Buddhist monk (d. 873)

798

• Abdallah ibn Tahir, Muslim governor (approximate date)
• Babak Khorramdin, Persian military leader (approximate date)
• Ignatius I, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date)

799

• Jiang Shen, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 881)
• Langdarma, emperor of Tibet (approximate date)
• Zhang Yichao, Chinese general (approximate date)

Deaths

Transcluding articles: 790, 791, 792, 793, 794, 795, 796, 797, 798, and 799

790

• Fujiwara no Otomuro, Japanese empress consort (b. 760)
• Thecla of Kitzingen, saint and abbess
• Torson, Frankish count of Toulouse (or 789)

791

• Artgal mac Cathail, king of Connacht (Ireland)
• Idris I, emir and founder of the Idrisid dynasty (b. 745)
• Wermad, bishop of Trier
• Zhang Xiaozhong, general of the Tang dynasty (b. 730)

792

• August 12 – Jænberht, archbishop of Canterbury
• Cináed mac Artgail, king of Connacht (Ireland)
• Máel Ruain, Irish abbot and founder of Tallaght Abbey
• Michael Lachanodrakon, Byzantine general (strategos)
• Osred II, king of Northumbria

793

• February 22 – Sicga, Anglo-Saxon nobleman
• Idriss I, Muslim emir and founder of the Idrisid Dynasty (or 791)^[25]

794

• May 20 – Æthelberht II, king of East Anglia
• August 10 – Fastrada, Frankish queen consort (b. 765)
• Solus, Anglo-Saxon missionary and saint (approximate date)

795

• December 25 – Adrian I, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 700)
• Ælfthryth of Crowland, Anglo-Saxon princess
• Bran Ardchenn, king of Leinster (Ireland)
• Malik ibn Anas, founder of the Maliki School (b. 711)
• Witzan, Obodrite prince

796

• April 18 – Æthelred I, king of Northumbria
• June 12 – Hisham I, Muslim emir (b. 757)
• July 29 – Offa, king of Mercia (b. 730)
• August 10 – Eanbald, archbishop of York
• Colla mac Fergusso, king of Connacht (Ireland)
• Ecgfrith, king of Mercia
• Fujiwara no Tsuginawa, Japanese statesman (b. 727)
• Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari, Muslim philosopher (or 806)
• Sibawayh, Persian linguist and grammarian (b. 760)
• Tassilo III, duke of Bavaria (approximate date)

797

• February 6 – Donnchad Midi, High King of Ireland
• Æthelberht of Whithorn, Anglo-Saxon bishop
• Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak, scholar and theologian
• Al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba, Muslim military leader
• Bermudo I, king of Asturias (approximate date)
• Caradog ap Meirion, king of Gwynedd (approximate date)
• Constantine VI, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (b. 771)
• Cummascach mac Fogartaig, king of South Brega
• Guan Bo, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 719)
• Muireadhach mac Olcobhar, Irish abbot

798

• 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)

799

• April 13 – Paul the Deacon, Lombard monk and historian
• September 4 – Musa al-Kadhim, seventh Twelver Shī‘ah Imam (b. 745)
• Eric, duke of Friuli
• Gerold, Alamannian nobleman
• Huaisu, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 737)
• Osbald, king of Northumbria