Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 781 A.D. through 790 A.D.
- 781 to 790
- Charlemagne executes 4500 Saxon hostages at Verden,
and issues the "Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae" (782)
- Cynewulf, king of the West Saxons (-- 757) d. 786
- Caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 - 809)
- First Dan, invasion of Britain (787)
- Charlemagne annexes Lombard duchy of Beneventum (787)
- Charlemagne deposes Tassilo of Bavaria and annexes
his country (788)
- The Slovenes settle in Carniola (788)
- Idris establishes a Shiite kingdom in Morocco (788)
- Constantine I, king of Scotland (789 - 820)
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