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Year 781 (DCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 781 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.

7th century

8th century

760s

780s

778

781

781 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar

781
DCCLXXXI

Ab urbe condita

1534

Armenian calendar

230
ԹՎ ՄԼ

Assyrian calendar

5531

Balinese saka calendar

702–703

Bengali calendar

188

Berber calendar

1731

Buddhist calendar

1325

Burmese calendar

143

Byzantine calendar

6289–6290

Chinese calendar

庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
3478 or 3271
— to —
辛酉年 (Metal Rooster)
3479 or 3272

Coptic calendar

497–498

Discordian calendar

1947

Ethiopian calendar

773–774

Hebrew calendar

4541–4542

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat

837–838

- Shaka Samvat

702–703

3881–3882

Holocene calendar

10781

Iranian calendar

159–160

Islamic calendar

164–165

Japanese calendar

Hōki 12 / Ten'ō1
(天応元年)

Javanese calendar

676–677

Julian calendar

781
DCCLXXXI

Korean calendar

3114

Minguo calendar

1131 before ROC
民前1131年

Nanakshahi calendar

−687

1092/1093 AG

Thai solar calendar

1323–1324

Tibetan calendar

阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
907 or 526 or −246
— to —
阴金鸡年
(female Iron-Rooster)
908 or 527 or −245

Coronation of Louis the Pious as sub-king of Italy and Aquitaine by pope Adrian I

Events

By place

Europe

King Charlemagne has his son Carloman (renamed Pepin) anointed "King of Italy", and he is crowned by Pope Adrian I with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. His younger brother Charles I is anointed king of Aquitaine, and Louis the Pious (only 3-years old) is appointed sub-king of Italy and Aquitaine, following the conversion of Aquitaine from a Duchy to a sub-kingdom.^[1]
Charlemagne meets Alcuin, Anglo-Saxon missionary, in Italy, and invites him to Aachen, where he becomes Charlemagne's chief adviser on religious and educational matters (approximate date).
The Frankish currency called the livre carolingienne is minted for the first time (approximate date).

Asia

Yang Yan, Chinese statesman, commits suicide after being accused of bribery and corruption. He is credited with reforming the tax system for peasants, reducing the power of the aristocratic classes, and eliminating their tax-free estates.
April 30 – Emperor KōninofJapan abdicates the throne after an 11-year reign, in favour of his half-Korean son, Kanmu.
July 31 – The oldest recorded eruptionofMount Fuji occurs (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
New city of Bian (汴) is constructed on the site of Kaifeng during the Tang dynasty (China).
Marriage of Abbasid prince Harun ibn al-Mahdi (future caliph Harun al-Rashid) and Zubaidah bint Ja'far.

By topic

Religion

Charlemagne defines the Papal territory (see Papal States). He codifies the regions over which the pope would be temporal sovereign: the Duchy of Rome is expanded by Ravenna, the Duchy of the Pentapolis, parts of the Duchy of Benevento, Tuscany, Corsica and Lombardy.
Nestorians in China build Christian monasteries, and erect the Nestorian Stele (approximate date).

Births

Harith al-Muhasibi, founder of the Baghdad School of Islamic philosophy, and a teacher of the Sufi masters Junayd al-Baghdadi and Sari al-Saqti (d. 857)

Deaths

Alchmund, bishop of Hexham (approximate date)
King Fergus mac EchdachofDál Riata (Scotland)
Guo Ziyi, general of the Tang dynasty (b. 697)
Isonokami no Yakatsugu, Japanese nobleman (b. 723)
Yang Yan, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 727)

References

^ Matthias Becher (2003). Charlemagne. Yale University Press. pp. 127–. ISBN 978-0-300-10758-6.

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