Explore 14 historical events from 780–789.
Year 787 (DCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 787 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno D…
Arechis II, duke of Benevento
Hildegard was a Frankish queen and the wife of Charlemagne from c. 771 until her death. Hildegard was a noblewoman of Frankish and Alemannian heritage. Through eleven years of marr…
Hildegard of the Vinzgau, Frankish queen
Saint Arbeo of Freising was an early medieval author and the Bishop of Freising from 764.
Arbeo, bishop of Freising
Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-ʿĀbid ibn Hasan al-Mu'thallath ibn Hasan al-Mu'thannā ibn Hasan ibn Ali was an Alid who rebelled at Medina against the Abbasid caliph al-Hadi. His grandfather…
Al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Abid, anti-Abbasid rebel leader
The Ḥasanids are the descendants of Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, brother of Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī and grandson of Muhammad. They are a branch of the Alids, and one of the two most important branches …
A Hasanid Alid uprising in Mecca is crushed by the Abbasids at the Battle of Fakhkh
Saint Fulrad was a Frankish religious leader who was the Abbot of Saint-Denis. He was the counselor of both Pepin the Short and Charlemagne. Historians see Fulrad as important due …
Fulrad, Frankish diplomat and saint (born 710)
Bertrada of Laon, also known as Bertrada the Younger or Bertha Broadfoot, was the first Carolingian Frankish queen. An enduring influence in Frankish politics, she was the wife of …
Bertrada of Laon, Frankish queen (born 720)
Mount Fuji is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of 3,776.24 m. It is the highest mountain in Japan, the second-highest volc…
The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: Sixth day of the seventh month of the first…
Saint Alberic of Utrecht, Dutch: Alberik I van Utrecht, was a Benedictine monk and bishop of Utrecht, in what is today the Netherlands.
Alberic, archbishop of Utrecht
Saint Credan of Evesham is a saint in the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church and of the Eastern Orthodox Church. He is also known in Latin as Credus or Credanus.
Credan, English abbot and saint
Li Mian, courtesy name Xuanqing (玄卿), formally Duke Zhenjian of Qian (汧貞簡公), was a Chinese judge, military general, musician, poet, and politician during the Tang dynasty, serving …
Li Mian, Chinese judge, military general, musician, poet, and politician (born 717)
Year 787 (DCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 787 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno D…
Arechis II, duke of Benevento
The Ḥasanids are the descendants of Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, brother of Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī and grandson of Muhammad. They are a branch of the Alids, and one of the two most important branches …
A Hasanid Alid uprising in Mecca is crushed by the Abbasids at the Battle of Fakhkh
Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-ʿĀbid ibn Hasan al-Mu'thallath ibn Hasan al-Mu'thannā ibn Hasan ibn Ali was an Alid who rebelled at Medina against the Abbasid caliph al-Hadi. His grandfather…
Al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Abid, anti-Abbasid rebel leader
Abū Muḥammad Mūsā ibn al-Mahdī al-Hādī better known by his laqab al-Hādī (الهادي) was the fourth Abbasid caliph who succeeded his father al-Mahdi and ruled from 169 AH until his d…
Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph (born 764)
Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ar-Rashīd, or simply Hārūn ibn al-Mahdī, famously known as Hārūn al-Rashīd, was the fifth of the Abbasid caliphs, reigning from September 786 until hi…
"Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth…
Saint Arbeo of Freising was an early medieval author and the Bishop of Freising from 764.
Arbeo, bishop of Freising
Saint Fulrad was a Frankish religious leader who was the Abbot of Saint-Denis. He was the counselor of both Pepin the Short and Charlemagne. Historians see Fulrad as important due …
Fulrad, Frankish diplomat and saint (born 710)
Saint Alberic of Utrecht, Dutch: Alberik I van Utrecht, was a Benedictine monk and bishop of Utrecht, in what is today the Netherlands.
Alberic, archbishop of Utrecht
Hildegard was a Frankish queen and the wife of Charlemagne from c. 771 until her death. Hildegard was a noblewoman of Frankish and Alemannian heritage. Through eleven years of marr…
Hildegard of the Vinzgau, Frankish queen
Bertrada of Laon, also known as Bertrada the Younger or Bertha Broadfoot, was the first Carolingian Frankish queen. An enduring influence in Frankish politics, she was the wife of …
Bertrada of Laon, Frankish queen (born 720)
Mount Fuji is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of 3,776.24 m. It is the highest mountain in Japan, the second-highest volc…
The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: Sixth day of the seventh month of the first…
Saint Credan of Evesham is a saint in the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church and of the Eastern Orthodox Church. He is also known in Latin as Credus or Credanus.
Credan, English abbot and saint
Leo IV the Khazar was Byzantine emperor from 775 to 780 AD. He was born to Emperor Constantine V and Empress Tzitzak in 750. He was elevated to co-emperor in the next year, in 751,…
Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine emperor (born 750)