790

This page relates to the year 790 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Fire of the royal palace of Worms, which must be abandoned. Aachen becomes principal royal residence.
the prince austrasien Guillaume de Gellone is named count of Toulouse.
Charles, elder of legitimate wire of the king, is named duke with the Mans to monitor the files Breton.
At the Francs is instituted a fine for any failure with the military duty.
Charlemagne removes strike them individual.
Alcuin directs the School and the Academy to the franque court. He teaches grammar, the dialectical one, rhetoric and the orthography.

the basileus Constantin VI, supported by Alexis the Moselle, strategist of Arméniaques and carried by a military rising against Staurakios seizes the power.

the last Berber king is assassinated with the Ghana. Its subjects appeal to succeed to him a black Sarakolé, the king of the Ouagadou Kaya Maghan Cissé (the Master of gold). At the beginning of the reign of the first sovereign of Cissé Tounkara, his kingdom extends only on Ouagadou and Aouker, but a few years later, it carries out the unit of all the Soninké.
the kingdom of Ghana controls the traffic of Sudanese gold towards Islam and Europe. Its capital counts to 20.000 inhabitants. The king and his people are pagan but tolerate the presence of Moslems.

the Tibetans reach the river Amou-Daria and the area, rich in horses of the Ferghana. Their expansion in the west is contained by the troops of Haroun Al-Rashid, caliph of Baghdad.
Intervention of the Ouïgour S in China (790 - 791). Their Kaghan is assassinated.
Constitution of the first collection of oldest poetries Japan eases: the Manyôshû. It is composed of more than 4500 pieces which reflects the states of hearts of Japanese of all the social layers. It is strongly influenced by the Chinese and Korean literature.

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