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The year 783 is a common year starting on a Wednesday.

Events

February 20: Sino-Tibetan alliance ceremony in Qingshui. Under the reign of King Trisong Detsen, a peace treaty was negotiated between Tang China and Tibet, giving Tibet all lands in the Kokonor region. Tibetans control the oasis of Central Asia, including Dunhuang.
March 23 : Charlemagne celebrates Easter in Thionville.
May: Charlemagne enters Saxony with considerable forces. Certainly repelled near Detmold, he retreated to Paderborn where he brought reinforcements, then crushed the rebels on the Hase, passed the Weser and pushed for the first time to the Elbe.
October, Worms: back from Saxony, Charlemagne married the cruel Fastrade, who gave her two daughters, Theodrade and Hiltrude.

At the death of Silo des Asturias, his widow Audesinde had his nephew Alphonse II proclaimed, but the election was contested by Mauregat, the natural son of Alphonse and a Moorish slave. Alphonse gave him the crown.
The troops of the Emir of Cordoba Abd al-Rahman took Zaragoza revolted against the Omayyads.
Staurakios expedition against the Slavs in southern Greece and Peloponnese.
The Byzantine governor of Cyprus is captured by Arab pirates.

Death in 783

April 30: Hildegarde de Vintzgau, wife of Charlemagne in Thionville.
12 July: Berthe au Grand Pied, wife of Pépin the Brief and mother of Charlemagne.
Silo, king of Asturias, in Pravia.

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