789

This article is about the year 789. For the number, see 789 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	750s  760s  770s  – 780s –  790s  800s  810s
Years:	786 787 788 – 789 – 790 791 792

789 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

789 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	789 DCCLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1542
Armenian calendar	238 ԹՎ ՄԼԸ
Assyrian calendar	5539
Bengali calendar	196
Berber calendar	1739
Buddhist calendar	1333
Burmese calendar	151
Byzantine calendar	6297–6298
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3485 or 3425     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3486 or 3426
Coptic calendar	505–506
Discordian calendar	1955
Ethiopian calendar	781–782
Hebrew calendar	4549–4550
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	845–846
- Shaka Samvat	711–712
- Kali Yuga	3890–3891
Holocene calendar	10789
Iranian calendar	167–168
Islamic calendar	172–173
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 8 (延暦８年)
Julian calendar	789 DCCLXXXIX
Korean calendar	3122
Minguo calendar	1123 before ROC 民前1123年
Seleucid era	1100/1101 AG
Thai solar calendar	1331–1332

Text of the Admonitio generalis (789)

Year 789 (DCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 789 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 Charlemagne crosses the Elbe River with a Frankish-Saxon army into Obotrite territory. He submits the Wiltzes and reaches the Baltic.
• King Pepin of Italy conquers Istria on the Adriatic, ignoring Byzantine protests. He establishes a tributary march and sends missionaries.
• Charlemagne issues the Admonitio generalis, which covers educational and ecclesiastical reforms within the Frankish Kingdom.
• Charlemagne founds the town of Herford (modern Germany) in order to guard a ford crossing the narrow Werre River.

Britain

• King Beorhtric of Wessex marries princess Eadburh, daughter of king Offa of Mercia, and accepts Mercian overlordship.
• Constantine I is installed as king of the Picts. He becomes one of the greatest Scottish monarchs in the Viking period.
• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the first appearance of Vikings in England (see 787).

Arabian Empire

• Al-Khayzuran, widow of former Abbasid caliph Al-Mahdi, dies, leaving more of the effective power in the hands of Harun al-Rashid.
• The city of Fes (modern Morocco) is founded by emir Idris I, founder of the Zaydi Shi'te Idrisid dynasty.

Asia

• An uprising in Japan leads to a major defeat for emperor Kanmu, alongside a severe drought and famine—the streets of the capital Nagaoka-kyō are clogged with the sick.

Births

• Ziryab, Muslim poet and musician (d. 857)

Deaths

• Al-Khayzuran, wife of Al-Mahdi
• Hildeprand, duke of Spoleto
• Mauregatus, king of Asturias (or 788)
• Torson, Frankish count of Toulouse (or 790)
• November 8 – Willehad, bishop of Bremen