787

From Freepedia

For other uses, see 787 (disambiguation).

Years: 783 784 785 786 - 787 - 788 789 790 791

Decades: 750s 760s 770s - 780s - 790s 800s 810s

Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century

Events

• Second Council of Nicaea ends the first iconoclastic period in the Byzantine Empire
• Canual succeeds Talorgen as king of the Picts.
• Mass slaughter of heathen Saxons at Verden by Charlemagne.
• the first three Viking ships landed in Wessex/England and the Norsemen started to plunder towns and coastal monasteries

Births

• Abu Mas'har, scholar

Deaths