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== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Europe ====
* King [[Charlemagne]] has his son [[Pepin of Italy|Carloman]] (renamed Pepin) anointed "King of Italy", and he is crowned by [[Pope Adrian I]] with the [[Iron Crown of Lombardy]]. His younger brother [[Charles the Younger|Charles I]] is anointed king of [[Aquitaine]], and [[Louis the Pious]] (only 3-years old) is appointed sub-king of [[Italy]] and Aquitaine, following the conversion of Aquitaine from a Duchy to a sub-kingdom.<ref name="Becher2003">{{cite book|author=Matthias Becher|title=Charlemagne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KbbMcYpuQswC&pg=PA127|year=2003|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-10758-6|pages=127–}}</ref>
* Charlemagne meets [[Alcuin]], Anglo-Saxon [[missionary]], in Italy, and invites him to [[Aachen]], where he becomes Charlemagne's chief adviser on [[Religion|religious]] and [[education]]al matters (approximate date).
* The Frankish currency called the ''[[French livre|livre carolingienne]]'' is minted for the first time (approximate date).

==== Asia ====
* [[Yang Yan (Tang dynasty)|Yang Yan]], Chinese statesman, commits [[suicide]] after being accused of [[bribery]] and [[corruption]]. He is credited with reforming the [[Tax|tax system]] for [[peasant]]s, reducing the power of the [[Aristocracy|aristocratic]] classes, and eliminating their [[Tax exemption|tax-free]] estates.
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Emperor Kōnin]] of [[Japan]] abdicates the [[throne]] after an 11-year reign, in favour of his half-[[Korea]]n son, [[Emperor Kanmu|Kanmu]].
* [[July 31]] &ndash; The oldest recorded [[eruption]] of [[Mount Fuji]] occurs (Traditional [[Japanese calendar|Japanese date]]: [[July 6]], 781).
* New city of Bian (汴) is constructed on the site of [[Kaifeng]] during the [[Tang dynasty]] ([[China]]).
* Marriage of [[Abbasid dynasty|Abbasid]] prince ''Harun ibn al-Mahdi'' (future caliph [[Harun al-Rashid]]) and [[Zubaidah bint Ja'far]].

=== By topic ===

==== Religion ====
* Charlemagne defines the Papal territory (see [[Papal States#Donation of Pepin|Papal States]]). He codifies the regions over which the [[pope]] would be temporal [[Sovereignty|sovereign]]: the [[Duchy of Rome]] is expanded by [[Ravenna]], the [[Duchy of the Pentapolis]], parts of the [[Duchy of Benevento]], [[Tuscany]], [[Corsica]] and [[Lombardy]]. 
* [[Nestorianism|Nestorians]] in China build Christian [[Monastery|monasteries]], and erect the [[Nestorian Stele]] (approximate date).
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