786

This article is about the year 786. For the number, see 786 (number). For the processor, see Intel 80786.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	750s  760s  770s  – 780s –  790s  800s  810s
Years:	783 784 785 – 786 – 787 788 789

786 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

786 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	786 DCCLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1539
Armenian calendar	235 ԹՎ ՄԼԵ
Assyrian calendar	5536
Bengali calendar	193
Berber calendar	1736
Buddhist calendar	1330
Burmese calendar	148
Byzantine calendar	6294–6295
Chinese calendar	乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 3482 or 3422     — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 3483 or 3423
Coptic calendar	502–503
Discordian calendar	1952
Ethiopian calendar	778–779
Hebrew calendar	4546–4547
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	842–843
- Shaka Samvat	708–709
- Kali Yuga	3887–3888
Holocene calendar	10786
Iranian calendar	164–165
Islamic calendar	169–170
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 5 (延暦５年)
Julian calendar	786 DCCLXXXVI
Korean calendar	3119
Minguo calendar	1126 before ROC 民前1126年
Seleucid era	1097/1098 AG
Thai solar calendar	1328–1329

The Abbasid Caliphate with provinces (786)

Year 786 (DCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 786 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

Europe

• King Charles the Younger, son of Charlemagne and ruler of Aquitaine, visits Monte Cassino and Capua, both in Beneventan territory. Prince Arechis II signs an agreement with the neighbouring Byzantine Duchy of Naples called a 'pactum'.

Britain

• Cyneheard, brother of the late king Sigeberht, ambushes and kills his rival Cynewulf of Wessex while he is at Meretun (now called Marten) with his mistress. The Wessex nobles refuse to recognise Cyneheard as king.
• Cyneheard is executed and succeeded by Beorhtric through support of king Offa of Mercia. His rival claimant to the Wessex throne, a distant nephew of the late king Ine named Egbert, is driven across the Channel.
• Egbert settles at the court of Charlemagne and learns the arts of government during his time in Gaul. During his stay he meets Eadberht, a priest, who becomes later king of Kent.

Arabian Empire

• June 11 – Battle of Fakhkh: A Hasanid Alid uprising in Mecca is crushed by the Abbasids. One of the Alids, Idris ibn Abdallah, flees to the Maghreb in western North Africa, where he later founds the Idrisid dynasty.
• September 14 – Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad upon the death of his brother Al-Hadi. He appoints Salim Yunisi as governor of Sindh and the Indus Valley.

By topic

Religion

• Beatus of Liébana, monk and theologian, publishes his Commentary on the Apocalypse.

Births

• Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, Muslim mathematician (d. 833)
• Al-Ma'mun, Muslim caliph (d. 833)
• Saga, emperor of Japan (d. 842)

Deaths

• Abo of Tiflis, Christian martyr
• Al-Rabi' ibn Yunus, Muslim minister (or 785)
• September 14 – Al-Hadi, Muslim caliph (b. 764)
• Cyneheard the Ætheling, nobleman of Wessex
• Cynewulf, king of Wessex
• Desiderius, king of the Lombards (approximate date)
• Diarmait mac Conaing, king of South Brega (Ireland)
• October 16 – Lullus, archbishop of Mainz
• Sakanoue no Karitamaro, Japanese general (b. 727)
• Tipraiti mac Taidg, king of Connacht (Ireland)