783

This article is about the year 783. For the number, see 783 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	750s  760s  770s  – 780s –  790s  800s  810s
Years:	780 781 782 – 783 – 784 785 786

783 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

783 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	783 DCCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1536
Armenian calendar	232 ԹՎ ՄԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	5533
Bengali calendar	190
Berber calendar	1733
Buddhist calendar	1327
Burmese calendar	145
Byzantine calendar	6291–6292
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3479 or 3419     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3480 or 3420
Coptic calendar	499–500
Discordian calendar	1949
Ethiopian calendar	775–776
Hebrew calendar	4543–4544
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	839–840
- Shaka Samvat	705–706
- Kali Yuga	3884–3885
Holocene calendar	10783
Iranian calendar	161–162
Islamic calendar	166–167
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 2 (延暦２年)
Julian calendar	783 DCCLXXXIII
Korean calendar	3116
Minguo calendar	1129 before ROC 民前1129年
Seleucid era	1094/1095 AG
Thai solar calendar	1325–1326

Mauregatus of Asturias (783–788)

Year 783 (DCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 783 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.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Arab–Byzantine War: A Byzantine expeditionary force under Staurakios, chief minister (logothete), begins a campaign against the communities (Sclaviniae) of Greece. Setting out from Constantinople, the imperial army follows the Thracian coast into Macedonia, and then south into Thessaly, Central Greece and the Peloponnese. Staurakios restores a measure Byzantine authority over these areas, and collects booty and tribute from the locals.

Europe

• Mauregatus of Asturias, illegitimate son of the late king Alfonso I, usurps the throne after the death of his brother-in-law Silo. However, the nobility has elected Alfonso II at Adosinda's (wife of Silo) insistence, but Mauregatus assembles a large army of supporters and forces Alfonso to flee to Álava (modern Spain). Adosinda is put in the monastery of San Juan de Pravia, where she lives out the rest of her life.
• April 30 – Hildegard, wife of king Charlemagne, dies in childbirth after her ninth confinement in less than 12 years of marriage. His mother, Bertrada of Laon, dies in the summer and is buried with great ceremony beside her husband Pepin the Short in the Abbey of St. Denis (modern-day Paris).
• October – Charlemagne marries Fastrada, the 18-year-old daughter of an Frankish count named Rudolph, and makes her his queen at Worms. The probable reason behind the marriage is to solidify a Frankish alliance east of the Rhine against the Saxons in Lower Saxony (modern Germany).
• Winter – Saxon Wars: Charlemagne defeats the Saxon 'rebels' in a three-day battle next to the Hase River and perhaps overruns fortifications on the Wittekindsberg before ravaging southern Saxony. A Frisian uprising against Carolingian rule is supported by duke Widukind.

Births

• Wu Yuanji, general of the Tang Dynasty (or 793)

Deaths

• July 12 – Bertrada of Laon, wife of Pepin the Short
• Cynewulf, bishop of Lindisfarne (approximate date)
• Fujiwara no Uona, Japanese minister (b. 721)
• Han Gan, Chinese painter of the Tang Dynasty
• April 30 – Hildegard, wife of Charlemagne (b. 758)
• Isa ibn Musa, Muslim governor (or 784)
• Silo, king of Asturias (Spain)