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Calendar year

This article is about the year 802.  For the networking standard, see [IEEE 802](/source/IEEE_802). For the area code, see [Area code 802](/source/Area_code_802).

Calendar year

Years Millennium 1st millennium Centuries 8th century 9th century 10th century Decades 780s 790s 800s 810s 820s Years 799 800 801 802 803 804 805 v t e

802 by topic Leaders Political entities State leaders Religious leaders Categories Births Deaths Establishments Disestablishments v t e

802 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 802 DCCCII Ab urbe condita 1555 Armenian calendar 251 ԹՎ ՄԾԱ Assyrian calendar 5552 Balinese saka calendar 723–724 Bengali calendar 208–209 Berber calendar 1752 Buddhist calendar 1346 Burmese calendar 164 Byzantine calendar 6310–6311 Chinese calendar 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3499 or 3292 — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3500 or 3293 Coptic calendar 518–519 Discordian calendar 1968 Ethiopian calendar 794–795 Hebrew calendar 4562–4563 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 858–859 - Shaka Samvat 723–724 - Kali Yuga 3902–3903 Holocene calendar 10802 Iranian calendar 180–181 Islamic calendar 185–187 Japanese calendar Enryaku 21 (延暦２１年) Javanese calendar 697–698 Julian calendar 802 DCCCII Korean calendar 3135 Minguo calendar 1110 before ROC 民前1110年 Nanakshahi calendar −666 Seleucid era 1113/1114 AG Thai solar calendar 1344–1345 Tibetan calendar ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Snake) 928 or 547 or −225 — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Water-Horse) 929 or 548 or −224

Map of the [British Isles](/source/British_Isles) (c. 802)

King [Egbert of Wessex](/source/Egbert_of_Wessex) (802–839)

Year **802** (**[DCCCII](/source/Roman_numerals)**) was a [common year starting on Saturday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Saturday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/Julian_calendar), the 802nd year of the [Common Era](/source/Common_Era) (CE) and [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) (AD) designations, the 802nd year of the [1st millennium](/source/1st_millennium), the 2nd year of the [9th century](/source/9th_century), and the 3rd year of the [800s](/source/800s_(decade)) decade.

## Events

### By place

#### Byzantine Empire

- [October 31](/source/October_31) – Empress [Irene](/source/Irene_of_Athens) is deposed after a 5-year reign, and banished to [Lesbos](/source/Lesbos_Island). High-ranking [patricians](/source/Patrician_(ancient_Rome)#Late_Roman_and_Byzantine_period) place [Nikephoros](/source/Nikephoros_I), the minister of finance (*[logothetes tou genikou](/source/Logothetes_tou_genikou)*), on the [throne](/source/Throne). He is crowned in the [Hagia Sophia](/source/Hagia_Sophia) at [Constantinople](/source/Constantinople), by Patriarch [Tarasios](/source/Patriarch_Tarasios_of_Constantinople), as emperor of the [Byzantine Empire](/source/Byzantine_Empire).

#### Central America

- [May 1](/source/May_1) – [Lachan Kʼawiil Ajaw Bot](/source/Lachan_K%CA%BCawiil_Ajaw_Bot) (born June 25, 760) becomes the [ruler of the Mayan city state](/source/Maya_rulers) near [Itzan](/source/Itzan) in [Guatemala](/source/Guatemala).

#### Europe

- Pagan [Danes](/source/Danes) invade [Obodrite](/source/Obotrites)-ruled [Schleswig](/source/Schleswig-Holstein), to take over territory almost emptied by the forcible [deportations](/source/Deportation) of the [Saxons](/source/Saxons) by emperor [Charlemagne](/source/Charlemagne).[1]

- [Al-Andalus](/source/Al-Andalus): [Saragossa](/source/Zaragoza) rises against the [Emirate of Córdoba](/source/Emirate_of_C%C3%B3rdoba). Emir [Al-Hakam I](/source/Al-Hakam_I) sends a Muslim army under General [Amrus ibn Yusuf](/source/Amrus_ibn_Yusuf), and retakes the city.[2]

- [Krum](/source/Krum) becomes ruler ([khan](/source/Khan_(title))) of the [Bulgarian Empire](/source/First_Bulgarian_Empire) (until [814](/source/814)). During his reign [Bulgarian](/source/Bulgaria) territory doubles in size, from the [Danube](/source/Danube) to the [Dniester](/source/Dniester).

#### Britain

- King [Beorhtric of Wessex](/source/Beorhtric_of_Wessex) dies after drinking a [chalice](/source/Chalice) of poison intended for his wife, Eadburh. She flees to the court of Charlemagne, who accepts a portion of her wealth and makes her [abbess](/source/Abbess). Prince [Egbert](/source/Egbert_of_Wessex) returns to [Wessex](/source/Wessex), and is accepted as the new king.[3]

- [Battle of Kempsford](/source/%C3%86thelmund#Battle_of_Kempsford_and_his_death): [Æthelmund](/source/%C3%86thelmund), ealdorman of [Hwicce](/source/Hwicce), is killed during the battle by his rival [Weohstan](/source/Weohstan), who [levies](/source/Conscription#Medieval_levies) West Saxon [Wiltshire](/source/Wiltshire).[4]

- The [Vikings](/source/Vikings) plunder the treasures of [Iona Abbey](/source/Iona_Abbey), on the west coast of [Scotland](/source/Scotland) (approximate date).

#### Abbasid Caliphate

- The Mecca Protocol: Caliph [Harun al-Rashid](/source/Harun_al-Rashid) and the leading officials of the [Abbasid Caliphate](/source/Abbasid_Caliphate) perform the [hajj](/source/Hajj) to [Mecca](/source/Mecca), where the line of succession is finalized. Harun's eldest son [al-Amin](/source/Al-Amin) is named heir, but his second son [al-Ma'mun](/source/Al-Ma'mun) is named as al-Amin's heir, and ruler of a broadly autonomous [Khurasan](/source/Khurasan). A third son, [al-Qasim](/source/Al-Qasim_ibn_Harun_al-Rashid), is added as third heir, and receives responsibility over the [frontier areas](/source/Al-Awasim) with the Byzantine Empire.

#### Asia

- Prince [Jayavarman](/source/Jayavarman_II) declares the [Khmer Empire](/source/Khmer_Empire) (modern-day [Cambodia](/source/Cambodia)) independent, and establishes the kingdom of [Angkor](/source/Angkor). He is reconsecrated as a world ruler (*[chakravartin](/source/Chakravartin)*), or god-king (*[devaraja](/source/Devaraja)*), under [Hindu](/source/Hinduism) rites.

### By topic

#### Religion

- The [Haeinsa](/source/Haeinsa) Temple of the [Jogye Order](/source/Jogye_Order) is built in [Korea](/source/Korea).

## Births

- [Bi Xian](/source/Bi_Xian), chancellor of the [Tang Dynasty](/source/Tang_dynasty) (d. [864](/source/864))

- [Fujiwara no Nagara](/source/Fujiwara_no_Nagara), Japanese statesman (d. [856](/source/856))

- [Hugh](/source/Hugh_(abbot_of_Saint-Quentin)), illegitimate son of [Charlemagne](/source/Charlemagne) (d. [844](/source/844))

- [Ono no Takamura](/source/Ono_no_Takamura), Japanese scholar and [poet](/source/Japanese_poetry) (d. [853](/source/853))

- [Ralpacan](/source/Ralpacan), emperor of [Tibet](/source/Tibetan_Empire) (d. [836](/source/836))

## Deaths

- [January 11](/source/January_11) – [Paulinus II](/source/Paulinus_II_of_Aquileia), patriarch of [Aquileia](/source/Patriarchate_of_Aquileia) (or [804](/source/804))

- [Æthelmund](/source/%C3%86thelmund), Anglo-Saxon [nobleman](/source/Nobility)

- [Bahlul ibn Marzuq](/source/Bahlul_Ibn_Marzuq), Muslim general

- [Beorhtric](/source/Beorhtric_of_Wessex), king of [Wessex](/source/Wessex)

- [Domitian](/source/Domitian_of_Carantania), duke of [Carantania](/source/Carantania) (approximate date)

- [Eadburh](/source/Eadburh), Anglo-Saxon princess

- [Kardam](/source/Kardam_of_Bulgaria), ruler ([khan](/source/Khan_(title))) of the [Bulgarian Empire](/source/First_Bulgarian_Empire) (or [803](/source/803))

- Rashid, Muslim regent of [Idris II](/source/Idris_II_of_Morocco)[5]

- [Višeslav](/source/Vi%C5%A1eslav_of_Croatia), duke of [Croatia](/source/Duchy_of_Croatia) (or [810](/source/810))

- [Wulfstan](/source/Wulfstan%2C_ealdorman_of_Wiltshire), Anglo-Saxon [ealdorman](/source/Ealdorman)

- [Theoctista](/source/Theoctista_(740-802)), politically influential Byzantine woman (b. [740](/source/740))

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENicolle201421_1-0)** [Nicolle 2014](#CITEREFNicolle2014), p. 21.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERucquoi199387_2-0)** [Rucquoi 1993](#CITEREFRucquoi1993), p. 87.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Kirby, *Earliest English Kings*, p. 186.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-BC_4-0)** Williams, Smyth & Kirby, *A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain* (1991), p. 24.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Gilbert Meynier (2010) *L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518)*. Paris: La Découverte; pp.28.

### Sources

- [Nicolle, David](/source/David_Nicolle) (2014). *The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785*. Bloomsbury USA. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-78200-825-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78200-825-5).

- Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). *Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique* (in French). Paris: Seuil. p. 87. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [2-02-012935-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/2-02-012935-3).

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