780

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The year 780 is a leap year that begins on a Saturday.

Events

February 6th: Renewal of the iconoclasm in the Byzantine Empire after the death of the Patriarch of Constantinople Nicétas and the forced election of Paul of Cyprus on 20th.
Spring: After spending the winter at Worms Charlemagne holds its general plaid in Eresburg and gathers its troops in Saxony. He obtained the oath and baptism of many Saxons in Orheim and then walked to the confluence of the Elbe and Ohře where he settled the disputes between Slavs and Saxons.
July: take of Terracina by the Byzantines of Naples allied to Arigis II of Benevent. Pope Adrien appealed to Charlemagne to obtain reinforcements and recover his estates in Campania.
September 8th: The reign of Constantine VI, Byzantine emperor (end 797), 9 years old, under the regency of Irene (780-790). Irene relies on the eunuchs Aetios and Staurakios, who becomes logothete of the Drome (police, post office, foreign affairs) and Tarasios, head of the office of the Chancery. She gives up iconoclasticism.
18 October: Bardas, strategist of the Armenians, tries in vain to bring to power Nikephoros, half brother of Leo IV
December 25: Charlemagne, who left in autumn for a third expedition to Italy, celebrates Christmas in Pavia.

Beginning of the reign in India of King Rashtrakuta of Malkhed (end of 794). He invaded the country of Ganga whose king had supported his brother. He attacked the Pallava who paid him tribute and invaded the eastern Chalukya land of which he forced King Vishnuvardhana to give him his daughter. The most powerful ruler of the Dekkan, he attacked the kingdoms of the north (Pratihara, northeast of Agra and Malwa).
Charter of creation of Andorra.
Creation of Benedictine abbeys of Saint-Gilles and Psalmodia by Benedict of Aniane in Septimanie.

Births in 780

Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, Arab-Muslim theologian.
Al-Jahiz, Arab writer.
Raban Maur, archbishop, grammairian and German encyclopedist.

Death in 780

September 8th: Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine emperor.

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