797

This article is about the year 797. For the airplane dubbed the "797", see Boeing New Midsize Airplane. For other uses, see 797 (disambiguation).

Year 797 (DCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 797 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.

797 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	797 DCCXCVII
Ab urbe condita	1550
Armenian calendar	246 ԹՎ ՄԽԶ
Assyrian calendar	5547
Balinese saka calendar	718–719
Bengali calendar	203–204
Berber calendar	1747
Buddhist calendar	1341
Burmese calendar	159
Byzantine calendar	6305–6306
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3494 or 3287     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3495 or 3288
Coptic calendar	513–514
Discordian calendar	1963
Ethiopian calendar	789–790
Hebrew calendar	4557–4558
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	853–854
- Shaka Samvat	718–719
- Kali Yuga	3897–3898
Holocene calendar	10797
Iranian calendar	175–176
Islamic calendar	180–181
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 16 (延暦１６年)
Javanese calendar	692–693
Julian calendar	797 DCCXCVII
Korean calendar	3130
Minguo calendar	1115 before ROC 民前1115年
Nanakshahi calendar	−671
Seleucid era	1108/1109 AG
Thai solar calendar	1339–1340
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Rat) 923 or 542 or −230     — to — མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Fire-Ox) 924 or 543 or −229

Gold solidus of Constantine VI and Leo IV

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• April 19 – Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son Constantine VI. He is captured and blinded; Irene exiles him to Principo, where he dies shortly thereafter of his wounds. Irene begins a 5-year reign, and calls herself basileus ("emperor") of the Byzantine Empire.

Europe

• King Charlemagne issues the Capitulare Saxonicum, making Westphalian, Angrian and Eastphalian Saxons equal to other peoples in the Frankish Kingdom. The Nordalbian Saxons revolt; a Frankish fleet is sent to the North Sea coast of Germany. It lands in Hadeln, a marshy coastal region between the Weser and Elbe estuaries, near modern-day Cuxhaven. Charlemagne invades northern Saxony, and again accepts the submission of the Saxons.^[1]

Britain

• Battle of Rhuddlan: Welsh forces, including those of Powys and Dyfed, clash with Mercians. King Coenwulf tries to re-assert his domination of northeast Wales. King Caradog ap Meirion of Gwynedd is killed during the fighting (approximate date).

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• 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