792

Year 792 (DCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 792 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century 8th century 9th century
Decades:	770s 780s 790s 800s 810s
Years:	789 790 791 792 793 794 795

792 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	792 DCCXCII
Ab urbe condita	1545
Armenian calendar	241 ԹՎ ՄԽԱ
Assyrian calendar	5542
Balinese saka calendar	713–714
Bengali calendar	199
Berber calendar	1742
Buddhist calendar	1336
Burmese calendar	154
Byzantine calendar	6300–6301
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3488 or 3428     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3489 or 3429
Coptic calendar	508–509
Discordian calendar	1958
Ethiopian calendar	784–785
Hebrew calendar	4552–4553
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	848–849
- Shaka Samvat	713–714
- Kali Yuga	3892–3893
Holocene calendar	10792
Iranian calendar	170–171
Islamic calendar	175–176
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 11 (延暦１１年)
Javanese calendar	687–688
Julian calendar	792 DCCXCII
Korean calendar	3125
Minguo calendar	1120 before ROC 民前1120年
Nanakshahi calendar	−676
Seleucid era	1103/1104 AG
Thai solar calendar	1334–1335
Tibetan calendar	阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 918 or 537 or −235     — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 919 or 538 or −234

Map of the Battle of Marcellae (792)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Spring – Emperor Constantine VI suppresses a rebellion, and restores his mother Irene to her former position as co-empress of the Byzantine Empire. The rival factions in Constantinople continue their intrigues against Constantine.
• Battle of Marcellae: Constantine VI leads a Byzantine expeditionary force into northern Thrace. At the border castle of Marcellae, near the modern town of Karnobat (Bulgaria), the Bulgarians under Kardam defeat the Byzantines.

Europe

• The Westphalians rise up against the Saxons, in response to a forcible recruitment for wars against the Avars. However, Pepin, sub-king of Northern Italy and son of King Charlemagne, continues the war, and wins considerable booty from the Avars.[1]
• Charlemagne banishes his oldest (illegitimate) son Pepin the Hunchback to a monastery at Prüm, for a rebellion against him. A group of Frankish nobles plan to kill Charlemagne, but the conspiracy is ultimately discovered.

Britain

• September – King Æthelred I of Northumbria marries Princess Ælfflæd, daughter of King Offa of Mercia, at Catterick. Unrest in Northumbria tempts the exiled king Osred II back to his kingdom from the Isle of Man. His supporters desert him, and Osred II is killed by Æthelred's men at Aynburg. He is buried at Tynemouth Priory.
• Offa arranges coastal defences to fend off Viking attacks. He forms an alliance with Essex, Kent and Sussex, in an attempt to unify England (approximate date).

Births

• Abd al-Rahman II, Muslim emir of Córdoba (d. 852)
• Abo, Japanese prince (d. 842)
• Adrian II, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 872)
• Bai Minzhong, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 861)
• Virasena, Indian mathematician (d. 853)

Deaths

• August 12 – Jænberht, archbishop of Canterbury
• Cináed mac Artgail, king of Connacht (Ireland)
• Máel Ruain, Irish abbot and founder of Tallaght Abbey
• Michael Lachanodrakon, Byzantine general (strategos)
• Osred II, king of Northumbria

References

1. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 80. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5.