AD 777

Year 777 (DCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 777 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:	750s 760s 770s 780s 790s
Years:	774 775 776 777 778 779 780

777 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	777 DCCLXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1530
Armenian calendar	226 ԹՎ ՄԻԶ
Assyrian calendar	5527
Balinese saka calendar	698–699
Bengali calendar	184
Berber calendar	1727
Buddhist calendar	1321
Burmese calendar	139
Byzantine calendar	6285–6286
Chinese calendar	丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3473 or 3413     — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3474 or 3414
Coptic calendar	493–494
Discordian calendar	1943
Ethiopian calendar	769–770
Hebrew calendar	4537–4538
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	833–834
- Shaka Samvat	698–699
- Kali Yuga	3877–3878
Holocene calendar	10777
Iranian calendar	155–156
Islamic calendar	160–161
Japanese calendar	Hōki 8 (宝亀８年)
Javanese calendar	672–673
Julian calendar	777 DCCLXXVII
Korean calendar	3110
Minguo calendar	1135 before ROC 民前1135年
Nanakshahi calendar	−691
Seleucid era	1088/1089 AG
Thai solar calendar	1319–1320
Tibetan calendar	阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 903 or 522 or −250     — to — 阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 904 or 523 or −249

Duke Widukind (North Rhine-Westphalia)

Events

By place

Europe

• Saxon Wars: King Charlemagne spends Easter in Nijmegen, and leads a large Frankish army to Paderborn, where a general assembly of Carolingian and Saxon leaders has been summoned. Saxon lands are integrated into the Frankish Kingdom, and divided into missionary parishes. Duke Widukind and his followers flee to King Sigfred of Denmark, seeking refuge and support.[1]
• Abbasid–Carolingian alliance: Charlemagne receives a request for support from pro-Abbasid rulers in the eastern thughur, or military frontier zone of the Emirate of Córdoba. Several powerful officials and noblemen in northeastern Iberia, such as the governors of Barcelona and Zaragoza, seek to rise up against the Umayyad emir Abd al-Rahman I.[2]

Africa

• Abd al-Rahman ibn Rustam is recognized as imam of the Ibadis, in Maghreb (western North Africa).

By topic

Religion

• Duke Tassilo III of Bavaria founds Kremsmünster Abbey (modern Austria). During this period, the Tassilo Chalice is possibly donated by Luitpirga, wife of Tassilo (approximate date).

Births

• date unknown
  • Heungdeok, king of Silla (Korea) (d. 836)
  • Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, Muslim imam (or 778)[3]
  • Masawaiyh, Assyrian physician (d. 857)

Deaths

• date unknown
  • Feardomhnach, abbot of Tuam (Ireland)
  • Flaithrí mac Domnaill, king of Connacht (Ireland)
  • Fujiwara no Kiyonari, Japanese nobleman (b. 716)
  • Fujiwara no Yoshitsugu, Japanese statesman (b. 716)
  • Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, Muslim astronomer[4]
  • Waermund, bishop of Worcester[5]
• probable
  • Telerig, ruler (khagan) of Bulgaria
  • Walpurga, Anglo-Saxon missionary (or 779)

References

1. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 12. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5.
2. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 16. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5.
3. Ibn Rāhwayh, Isḥāq (1990), Balūshī, ʻAbd al-Ghafūr ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq Ḥusayn (ed.), Musnad Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh (1st ed.), Tawzīʻ Maktabat al-Īmān, pp. 57–59
4. Plofker, Kim (2007). "Fazārī: Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al‐Fazārī". In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. pp. 362–3. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0.
5. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 223. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.