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Years: 783 784 785 786 - 787 - 788 789 790 791
Decades: 750s 760s 770s - 780s - 790s 800s 810s
Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century

Events

Second Council of Nicaea ends the first iconoclastic period in the Byzantine Empire
Canual succeeds Talorgen as king of the Picts.
Mass slaughter of heathen Saxons at Verden by Charlemagne.
the first three Viking ships landed in Wessex/England and the Norsemen started to plunder towns and coastal monasteries

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