775 To 799775x - Charlemagne begins new attacks against the Saxons and their leader Widukind.
oct 16 - Mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies.
778x - The events surrounding the Song of Roland take place as Charlemagne's rear guard leaves Spain. Though somewhat romanticized in the 4000 line epic, the defeat of Roland is the most important epic literature to come from the Middle Ages.
aug 15 - Battle at Roncevalles: Basques beat Charles the Great.
779feb 25 - Walburgis, Anglo-Saxon abbess/saint (Walpurgis Night), dies.
780781x - Japan Kammu ascends to the imperial throne.
782x - Charlemagne orders the execution of 4500 Saxon prisoners in one day.
783x - Charlemagne begins the final three year campaign to conquer Saxony.
apr 30 - Hildegarde dies in childbirth.
jul 12 - Bertrada of Laon, wife of French king Pippin III, dies.
784x - Japan ?tomo Yakamochi is given the rank Sei to Sh?gun, becoming the first to assume that title. His subsequent campaigns in the north are ineffectual.
x - Japan The Imperial court is moved from Heijo to Nagaoka.
nov 14 - Alberik I, bishop of Utrecht, dies.
786x - Charlemagne defeats the Saxons and imposes strict new rules to govern all areas of their lives, laws that only the Christian Church in Saxony could remove.
sep 24 - Al-Hadi, Arabic kalief of Islam (185-86), dies.
787x - Oecumenical Council of Roman Church.
x - Scandinavian raids of Britain.
sep 24 - 2nd Council of Nicaea 7th ecumenical council opens in Asia Minor.
oct 23 - Byzantine empress Irene recovers Iconclastic cult at Nicaea.
788x - Charlemagne defeats the Bavarians.
x - Japan The monk Saich? founds the Enryakuji on Mt. Hiei.
791x - Austria Hungary Charlemagne conquers the empire of the Avars u.796
793jun 08 - Vikings plunder St Cuthbert convent Lindisfarne.
794x - Japan Emperor Kammu moves the Imperial Court to Heian-kyo Kyoto. Start of the Heian Period. u.1185Period has ore independence from China.
jan 08 - Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island.
jun 01 - Charlemagne opens general synod in Frankfurt.
aug 10 - Fastrada, 3rd wife of Charlemagne, dies at 30.
nov 18 - Japanese emperor Kammu deallocates residence of Nara to Kioto.
795dec 22 - Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I.
dec 25 - Adrian I dies, ending his reign as Catholic Pope. r.772-dec 25 795.
dec 26 - Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope. re.List of Popes
796jul 26 - Offa, king of Mercia (75.-796).
799x - Leo III is attacked while on a religious procession in Rome. He returns to health with Charlemagne and is sent back to Rome under heavy guard. Charles hopes time will soften the people's impression of Leo III.
apr 13 - Paulus Diaconus Warnafridi, Longobardisch writer, dies.
nov 29 - Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to Rome.
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