792

This article is about the year 792. For the number, see 792 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	760s  770s  780s  – 790s –  800s  810s  820s
Years:	789 790 791 – 792 – 793 794 795

792 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

792 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	792 DCCXCII
Ab urbe condita	1545
Armenian calendar	241 ԹՎ ՄԽԱ
Assyrian calendar	5542
Bengali calendar	199
Berber calendar	1742
Buddhist calendar	1336
Burmese calendar	154
Byzantine calendar	6300–6301
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3488 or 3428     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3489 or 3429
Coptic calendar	508–509
Discordian calendar	1958
Ethiopian calendar	784–785
Hebrew calendar	4552–4553
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	848–849
- Shaka Samvat	714–715
- Kali Yuga	3893–3894
Holocene calendar	10792
Iranian calendar	170–171
Islamic calendar	175–176
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 11 (延暦１１年)
Julian calendar	792 DCCXCII
Korean calendar	3125
Minguo calendar	1120 before ROC 民前1120年
Seleucid era	1103/1104 AG
Thai solar calendar	1334–1335

Map of the Battle of Marcellae (792)

Year 792 (DCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 792 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

Byzantine Empire

• Spring – Emperor Constantine VI suppresses a rebellion and restores his mother Irene to her former position as co-empress of the Byzantine Empire. The rival factions in Constantinople continue their intrigues against Constantine.
• Battle of Marcellae: Constantine VI leads a Byzantine expeditionary force into northern Thrace. At the border castle of Marcellae near the modern town of Karnobat (Bulgaria), the Bulgarians under Kardam defeat the Byzantines.

Europe

• The Westphalians rise up against the Saxons in response to a forcible recruitment for wars against the Avars. However, Pepin, sub-king of Northern Italy and son of king Charlemagne continues the war and wins considerable booty from the Avars.
• Charlemagne banishes his oldest (illegitimate) son Pepin the Hunchback to a monastery at Prüm, for a rebellion against him. A group of Frankish nobles plan to kill Charlemagne and his wife Hildegarde, but the conspiracy is ultimately discovered.

Britain

• September – King Æthelred I of Northumbria marries princess Ælfflæd, daughter of king Offa of Mercia, at Catterick. Unrest in Northumbria tempts the exiled king Osred II back to his kingdom from the Isle of Man. His supporters dessert him and he is killed by Æthelred's men at Aynburg. He is buried at Tynemouth Priory.
• Offa arranges coastal defences to fend off Viking attacks. He forms a alliance with Essex, Kent and Sussex in a attempt to unify England (approximate date).

Births

• Adrian II, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 872)

Deaths

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