791

Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century 8th century 9th century
Decades:	770s 780s 790s 800s 810s
Years:	788 789 790 791 792 793 794
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791 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 791
DCCXCI

Ab urbe condita 1544

Armenian calendar 240
ԹՎ ՄԽ

Assyrian calendar 5541

Balinese saka calendar 712–713

Bengali calendar 197–198

Berber calendar 1741

Buddhist calendar 1335

Burmese calendar 153

Byzantine calendar 6299–6300

Chinese calendar 庚午年 (Metal Horse)
3488 or 3281
— to —
辛未年 (Metal Goat)
3489 or 3282

Coptic calendar 507–508

Discordian calendar 1957

Ethiopian calendar 783–784

Hebrew calendar 4551–4552

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 847–848

- Shaka Samvat 712–713

- Kali Yuga 3891–3892

Holocene calendar 10791

Iranian calendar 169–170

Islamic calendar 174–175

Japanese calendar Enryaku 10
(延暦10年)

Javanese calendar 686–687

Julian calendar 791
DCCXCI

Korean calendar 3124

Minguo calendar 1121 before ROC
民前1121年

Nanakshahi calendar −677

Seleucid era 1102/1103 AG

Thai solar calendar 1333–1334

Tibetan calendar 阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
917 or 536 or −236
— to —
阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
918 or 537 or −235

King Alfonso II of Asturias (12th century)

Year 791 (DCCXCI ) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 791 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

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By place

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Europe

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The Avars, a pagan Asian nomadic horde that has settled down in what is today Hungary, invade Friuli and Bavaria. King Charlemagne assembles a Frankish army, and marches down the Danube River to ravage Avar territory. A Frankish-Lombard expeditionary force, under his son Pepin, (king of the Lombards) invades the Drava Valley and devastates Pannonia.
Summer – Charlemagne loses most of his riding and baggage horses during an equine epidemic; many Saxons take advantage of Charlemagne's Avar setback and rebel once more.^[1]
September 14 – Alfonso II, the son of former king Fruela I, becomes ruler of Asturias (Northern Spain). He moves the capital to Oviedo, the commercial centre of the region.

Britain

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Princes Ælf and Ælfwine of Northumbria, the sons of former king Ælfwald I, are persuaded to leave their sanctuary in York Minster, and are immediately forcibly drowned in Wonwaldremere, at the instigation of King Æthelred I.

Africa

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Emir Idris I, founder of the Idrisid dynasty and kingdom of Morocco, is poisoned on orders of Caliph Harun al-Rashid.^[2]^[3] He is succeeded by his son Idris II (only just two months old), who is raised by his mother Kenza among the Berbers of Volubilis.

Asia

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April – Tang forces retake the protectorate of Annan from rebelling Annamese chieftains Đỗ Anh Hàn, Phùng Hưng and Phùng An.^[4]

Births

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Idris II, Muslim emir of Morocco (d. 828)
Pei Xiu, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (d. 864)

Deaths

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Artgal mac Cathail, king of Connacht (Ireland)
Idris I, emir and founder of the Idrisid dynasty (b. 745)
Wermad, bishop of Trier
Zhang Xiaozhong, general of the Tang dynasty (b. 730)

References

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^ David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 79. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
^ Rogerson, Barnaby (2010). Marrakesh, Fez and Rabat. London: Cadogan Guides. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-86011-432-8.
^ "The History of Volubilis". Volubilis Project. September 25, 2003. Archived from the original on April 24, 2012. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
^ Taylor, K.W. (2013). A History of the Vietnamese. Cambridge University Press. p. 40. ISBN 9780520074170.

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