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

==== Europe ====
* King [[Charles the Younger]], son of [[Charlemagne]] and ruler of [[Aquitaine]], visits [[Monte Cassino]] and [[Capua]], both in [[Duchy of Benevento|Beneventan]] territory. Prince [[Arechis II of Benevento|Arechis II]], feeling threatened by the Franks, decides that he needs to stop quarrelling with the Byzantine [[Duchy of Naples]] so he can focus on the Frankish foe. Prince Arechis II therefore signs a peace agreement, or 'pactum', with the Duchy of Naples. 

==== Britain ====
* [[Cyneheard the Ætheling|Cyneheard]], brother of the late king [[Sigeberht of Wessex|Sigeberht]], ambushes and kills his rival [[Cynewulf of Wessex]], while he is at ''Meretun'' (now called [[Grafton, Wiltshire|Marten]]) with his mistress. The Wessex [[Nobility|nobles]] refuse to recognise Cyneheard as king. 
* Cyneheard is executed and succeeded by [[Beorhtric of Wessex|Beorhtric]], through the support of King [[Offa of Mercia]]. His rival claimant to the [[Wessex]] throne, a distant nephew of the late king [[Ine of Wessex|Ine]], named [[Egbert of Wessex|Egbert]], is driven across the [[English Channel|Channel]].
* Egbert settles at the court of Charlemagne, and learns the arts of government during his time in [[Gaul]].<ref name=Kirby_176>Kirby, ''Earliest English Kings'', pp. 176-177.</ref> During his stay he meets [[Eadberht III Præn|Eadberht]], a [[priest]], who later becomes king of [[Kingdom of Kent|Kent]].

==== Abbasid Caliphate ====
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Battle of Fakhkh]]: An [[Alids|Alid]] uprising in [[Medina]] is crushed by the [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasids]]. One of the Alids, [[Idris I of Morocco|Idris ibn Abdallah]], flees to the [[Maghreb]] in western North Africa, where he later founds the [[Idrisid dynasty]]<ref name="EI2">{{EI2 | last = Veccia Vaglieri | first = L. | authorlink = Laura Veccia Vaglieri | title = al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī, Ṣāḥib Fak̲h̲k̲h̲ | doi =10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_2979 | volume = 3 | pages = 615–617}}</ref> in 788/789.
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Harun al-Rashid]] becomes the Abbasid [[caliph]] in [[Baghdad]], upon the death of his brother [[Al-Hadi]]. He appoints Salim Yunisi as governor of [[Sindh]] and the [[Indus River|Indus Valley]].

=== By topic ===

==== Religion ====
* [[Beatus of Liébana]], monk and [[Theology|theologian]], publishes his ''Commentary on the Apocalypse''.
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