Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 791 A.D. through 800 A.D.
- 791 to 800
- The Byzantine Emperor Constantine imprisons his mother
Irene for her cruelty (791)
- Irene regains power (792)
- Beginning of Viking era in Britain (792)
- Vikings attack the Eng. island monastery of
Lindisfarne (792)
- East Anglia annexed to Mercia by Offa (793)
- Revolts in Egypt (795)
- Charlemagne forms the Spanish march (795)
- Lothar I, eldest son of the future Emperor Louis I,
the Pious, b. 795
- The Northmen land in Ireland (795)
- Offa, king of Mercia, d. 796; succeeded by Cenwulf
(796 - 821)
- After his victory over the Avars, Charlemagne's son
Pepin founds the Avar march with an archbishopric
at Salzburg (796)
- The Byzantine Empress Irene overthrows her son
Constantine, blinds him, assumes sole power, and
reportedly proposes to marry Charlemagne (the Greek
Church canonized her) [797]
- Cenwulf of Mercia subdues Kent (798)
- Charlemagne conquers and destroys Adriatic port of
Fiume (799)
- Charlemagne crowned first Holy Roman Emperor by Pope
Leo III at Rome, Dec. 25 (the new empire of the West,
as opposed to the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire)
[800]
- Rajputs occupy Kana Uj in northern India, setting up
a kingdom that extends from Bihar to the Sutlej River
(800)
- Invasion of Bohemia by the Franks (800)
- Slav tribes migrate into districts around the Oder,
the Havel, and the Spree Rivers and the Ore mountains
(800)
- Harun al-Rashid sends an embassy to the court of
Charlemagne (800)
- Northmen invade Germany (800)
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