Centuries:	7th century - 8th century - 9th century
Decades:	740s  750s  760s  - 770s -  780s  790s  800s
Years:	775 776 777 - 778 - 779 780 781

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Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

778 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	778 DCCLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1531
Armenian calendar	227 ԹՎ ՄԻԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-1066 – -1065
Berber calendar	1728
Buddhist calendar	1322
Burmese calendar	140
Byzantine calendar	6286 – 6287
Chinese calendar	丁巳年十一月廿八日 (3414/3474-11-28) — to — 戊午年十二月初八日 (3415/3475-12-8)
Coptic calendar	494 – 495
Ethiopian calendar	770 – 771
Hebrew calendar	4538 – 4539
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	833 – 834
- Shaka Samvat	700 – 701
- Kali Yuga	3879 – 3880
Holocene calendar	10778
Iranian calendar	156 – 157
Islamic calendar	161 – 162
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3111
Thai solar calendar	1321
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Events

By Place

Europe

• August 15 — Battle of Roncevaux Pass (Roncesvalles): Charlemagne's army suffers a terrible defeat at the hand of the Basques. Among those killed is Roland, lord of the Breton March; the 11th-century Song of Roland is loosely based on the events of this battle.
• Charlemagne fights the Moors in Spain.
• Widukind returns to Saxony from Denmark.

Births

• 16 April — King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
• Zhaozhou, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk
• Liu Gongquan, noted Chinese calligrapher
• Emperor Xianzong of Tang, China

Deaths

• August 15 — Roland, Frankish commander
• Autpert Ambrose, monk and writer