802

This page relates to the year 802 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Asia

  • Foundation of the kingdom of the Kampuchea by Jayavarman II (fine of reign v. 836). It makes the unit of the Khmer and founds the town of Angkor. It rejects the suzerainty of the Çailendra of Java (it remained until worms 790 in Java) and inaugurates the worship of the god-king (devarãjã), binding the royalty to the divine capacity of Siva.

  • the emperor of the Japan makes it possible to the monk Saichō to go on the continent while uniting to an official mission (802/805). In China, it contacts a new Buddhist school, the “Terrasse of the Sky” (Tendai), which professes that each being, even inanimate, carries the natural of Buddha and can arrive one day at the Illumination.

Eastern Europe

  • October 31st: Following a military coup d'etat, the Byzantine empress Irene Athenian the is détrônée by her Minister for Finance Nicéphore which becomes emperor of Byzance under the name of Nicéphore Ier Logothète (title corresponding to Minister for Finance). Irene is exiled with Lesbos where she dies in August 803.

  • Nicéphore Ier, hostile with the monks, practices a moderate policy in order to consolidate the reforms iconoclasts.

  • Died of the frank counts Cadalo and Gontrand with the combat against the revolted Avars. Charlemagne decides to send forwardings starting from the Bavaria to settle the miserly question. The Francs devastate the Pannonia, making many prisoners and decimating the miserly nobility. The tudum makes act of tender and is again forgiven.

Western Europe

British Isles

Worsen Carolingian

  • general Service of the oath to the emperor. The empire is reorganized. It is divided into missatica, entrusted each one to two Missi dominici , one laic, the other old ecclesiastic. They are charged to make respect the royal authority, to take care of the equity of justice and to collect the oaths of fidelity. They ensure the minimum of cohesion the frank Empire.
    • For the Neustrie, two missi are indicated: Fardulf, abbot of Saint Denis, and the archbishop of Rouen Magenard associated with Mageldaud. The missaticum of the latter includes/understands eight Pagi of which the Maine and the Cotentin.
    • the emperor sends his missi in the provinces to subject the ecclesiastics to an closer examination of their doctrinal and liturgical knowledge.

  • Reform of justice: the missi are not only charged any more to supervise the comtaux courts, but can replace them, by holding personally the Plaid four times per annum. Professional jurys, the aldermen, replace sworn popular named among the inhabitants brought together for the plaid, who do not have any more the obligation to go there if they are not in lawsuit (809).

  • Embassy of the caliph Harun Al-Rachid who sends an elephant to Charlemagne.

Science & technology

  • the Arabs adopt the Indian figures.

Art & culture

  • Yearly Mettenses Priores , written after 802, probably with Chelles by the will of the abbess Gille, sister of Charlemagne.

Births in 802

  • Hugues (wire of Charlemagne)

Death in 802

Map-bms: 802

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