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Contents

Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

Asia

Europe

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

★ Constantine VI becomes Byzantine Emperor with Irene as guardian.

Asia

★ Tang De Zong becomes emperor of China.

Europe

★ Drest III succeeds Alpin II as king of the Picts.

★ The city of Osnabrück is founded by Charlemagne (approximate date)

Births

★ Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵwārizmī, Muslim mathematician (approximate date)

★ Rabanus Maurus, German theologian (approximate date)

★ Zongmi, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk of the Tang Dynasty (d. 841)

Deaths

★ September 8 — Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor