# 795 > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/795 > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/795.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/795 > Source revision: 1340848647 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Calendar year Calendar year Years Millennium 1st millennium Centuries 7th century 8th century 9th century Decades 770s 780s 790s 800s 810s Years 792 793 794 795 796 797 798 v t e 795 by topic Leaders Political entities State leaders Religious leaders Categories Births Deaths Establishments v t e 795 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 795 DCCXCV Ab urbe condita 1548 Armenian calendar 244 ԹՎ ՄԽԴ Assyrian calendar 5545 Balinese saka calendar 716–717 Bengali calendar 201–202 Berber calendar 1745 Buddhist calendar 1339 Burmese calendar 157 Byzantine calendar 6303–6304 Chinese calendar 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3492 or 3285 — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3493 or 3286 Coptic calendar 511–512 Discordian calendar 1961 Ethiopian calendar 787–788 Hebrew calendar 4555–4556 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 851–852 - Shaka Samvat 716–717 - Kali Yuga 3895–3896 Holocene calendar 10795 Iranian calendar 173–174 Islamic calendar 178–179 Japanese calendar Enryaku 14 (延暦１４年) Javanese calendar 690–691 Julian calendar 795 DCCXCV Korean calendar 3128 Minguo calendar 1117 before ROC 民前1117年 Nanakshahi calendar −673 Seleucid era 1106/1107 AG Thai solar calendar 1337–1338 Tibetan calendar ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dog) 921 or 540 or −232 — to — ཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Boar) 922 or 541 or −231 [Pope Leo III](/source/Pope_Leo_III) (750–816) Year **795** (**[DCCXCV](/source/Roman_numerals)**) was a [common year starting on Thursday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Thursday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/Julian_calendar). The denomination 795 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. ## Events ### By place #### Europe - [Saxon War](/source/Saxon_Wars#Final_phase): The [Slav](/source/Slavs) [Obodrites](/source/Obotrites), under their ruler [Witzan](/source/Witzlaus_(Obotrite_prince)), attack the northern [Saxons](/source/Saxons) in [Liuni](/source/L%C3%BCne). He is killed in an [ambush](/source/Ambush) and succeeded by his son Drożko ([Thrasco](/source/Thrasco_(Obotrite_prince))), who becomes a [Carolingian](/source/Carolingian_dynasty) *dux*. King [Charlemagne](/source/Charlemagne) leads a [Frankish](/source/Franks) expeditionary force north from [Mainz](/source/Mainz), and marches to the [Elbe](/source/Elbe), where eastern Saxon rebels again surrender.[1] - Charlemagne creates the [Hispanic Marches](/source/Marca_Hispanica), a [buffer zone](/source/Buffer_zone) beyond the former province of [Septimania](/source/Septimania). A group of [Iberian](/source/Iberian_Peninsula) lordships form a defensive barrier between the [Umayyad](/source/Umayyad_Caliphate) [Moors](/source/Moors) of [Al-Andalus](/source/Al-Andalus) (modern [Spain](/source/Spain)) and the [Frankish Kingdom](/source/Francia). - In the earliest recorded [Viking](/source/Vikings) raid on [Ireland](/source/Ireland), they attack the [monasteries](/source/Monastery) at [Iona](/source/Iona) ([Inner Hebrides](/source/Inner_Hebrides)), [Inishbofin](/source/Inishbofin%2C_County_Galway) and [Inishmurray](/source/Inishmurray) (approximate date). #### Britain - Quarrels between the kings [Cynan Dindaethwy](/source/Cynan_Dindaethwy) and [Hywel](/source/Hywel_ap_Rhodri_Molwynog) leave the way open for [Caradog ap Meirion](/source/Caradog_ap_Meirion) (the House of [Rhos](/source/Newborough%2C_Anglesey)) to usurp the [throne](/source/Throne) of [Gwynedd](/source/Kingdom_of_Gwynedd) (modern [Wales](/source/Wales)). - King [Offa of Mercia](/source/Offa_of_Mercia) receives [diplomatic](/source/Diplomacy) gifts from Charlemagne. He re-founds [St. Albans Abbey](/source/St_Albans_Cathedral), supposedly in thanks for overrunning [East Anglia](/source/Kingdom_of_East_Anglia) (approximate date). ### By topic #### Religion - [December 25](/source/December_25) – [Pope Adrian I](/source/Pope_Adrian_I), age 95, dies after a 23-year reign, and is succeeded by [Leo III](/source/Pope_Leo_III) as the 96th [pope](/source/Pope) of [Rome](/source/Rome). - [December 26](/source/December_26) – [Leo III](/source/Pope_Leo_III) is elected to serve as Pope on the day his predecessor [Adrian I](/source/Adrian_I) is buried, and is consecrated the following day. - [Paul the Deacon](/source/Paul_the_Deacon), a [Benedictine](/source/Order_of_Saint_Benedict) monk at [Monte Cassino](/source/Monte_Cassino), completes the *[History of the Lombards](/source/History_of_the_Lombards)* (approximate date). ## Births - [Æthelwulf](/source/%C3%86thelwulf_of_Wessex), king of [Wessex](/source/Wessex) (approximate date) - [Babak Khorramdin](/source/Babak_Khorramdin), Persian military leader (or [798](/source/798)) - [Bernard of Septimania](/source/Bernard_of_Septimania), Frankish duke (d. [844](/source/844)) - [Gregory IV](/source/Pope_Gregory_IV), pope of the [Catholic Church](/source/Catholic_Church) (d. 844) - [Judith of Bavaria](/source/Judith_of_Bavaria_(died_843)), Frankish queen (or 797/805) - [Landulf I](/source/Landulf_I_of_Capua), [gastald](/source/Gastald) (or count) of [Capua](/source/Principality_of_Capua) (approximate date) - [Lothair I](/source/Lothair_I), king and emperor of the [Franks](/source/Francia) (d. [855](/source/855)) - [Mu Zong](/source/Emperor_Muzong_of_Tang), emperor of the [Tang Dynasty](/source/Tang_dynasty) (d. [824](/source/824)) - [Nithard](/source/Nithard), Frankish [historian](/source/Historian) (d. 844) - [Renaud d'Herbauges](/source/Renaud_d'Herbauges), Frankish [nobleman](/source/Nobility) (d. [843](/source/843)) ## Deaths - [December 25](/source/December_25) – [Adrian I](/source/Pope_Adrian_I), pope of the Catholic Church (b. [700](/source/700)) - [Ælfthryth of Crowland](/source/%C3%86lfthryth_of_Crowland), Anglo-Saxon princess - [Bran Ardchenn](/source/Bran_Ardchenn), king of [Leinster](/source/Leinster) ([Ireland](/source/Ireland)) - [Malik ibn Anas](/source/Malik_ibn_Anas), founder of the [Maliki School](/source/Maliki) (b. [711](/source/AD_711)) - [Witzan](/source/Witzlaus_(Obotrite_prince)), Obodrite prince ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 81. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-78200-825-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78200-825-5). --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [795](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/795) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/795?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.