By place Europe • King
Charlemagne abandons his
channel project (see
793), and attacks the Saxon rebels from the north, supported by a second
Frankish army under his son
Charles the Younger, which crosses the
Rhine at
Cologne from the west; threatened from two directions, the
Saxons surrender near
Paderborn (
Westphalia). •
August 10 – Queen
Fastrada, third wife of Charlemagne, dies in
Frankfurt after 11 years of
marriage. Charlemagne consoles himself with
Luitgard, an
Alemannian noblewoman, whom he marries and moves into his new
palace at
Aachen (
Germany). Luitgard shares Charlemagne's interest in the
liberal arts. • King
Louis I (son of Charlemagne), age 16, marries
Ermengarde of Hesbaye. She is a Frankish
noblewoman and the daughter of
Ingerman, count of
Hesbaye (modern
Belgium).
Britain •
May 20 – King
Æthelberht II of East Anglia visits the royal
Mercian court at
Sutton Walls (
Herefordshire), with a view to marrying Princess
Ælfthryth. He is taken captive and
beheaded, on the orders of
King Offa. •
Vikings sack the
Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey in
Northumbria (the second monastery target in
England of the Vikings, after the raids on
Lindisfarne in
793).
Asia •
Kyoto becomes the
Japanese capital, ending the
Nara period, and beginning the
Heian period; a
Golden Age of Japanese
culture begins that will endure under the domination of the
Fujiwara,
Minamoto,
Tachibana and
Taira families, until
1185.
By topic Communication • A
paper mill begins production at
Baghdad during the
Abbasid era, as the
Arabs spread the techniques developed by Chinese
papermakers. Baghdad becomes a great seat of learning, with
Christian and
Jewish scholars as well as Muslims, while
Europe remains largely unlettered. The Arabs will become the world's most proficient papermakers.
Religion •
Council of Frankfurt: King
Charlemagne calls for a church meeting of the Frankish
realm. Bishops and priests from
Francia,
Aquitaine,
Italy, and
Provence are gathered in
Franconofurd (modern-day
Frankfurt am Main). == Births ==