World Timeline

AD 762: The Uyghur Khagan Bögü Khan officially adopted Manichaeism as the state religion, marking the first time in Turkish history that a belief system was elevated to state ideology.
 
AD 764: King Offa of Mercia conquers Kent, and brings an end to the rule of kings Ealhmund and Sigered in West Kent. He imposes Mercian overlordship on the kingdom, but allows a local king, Heaberht, to rule there.
 
AD 765: The Uyghur Khaganate consolidated its dominance in Mongolia and Central Asia, becoming a decisive Turkish power over Silk Road trade.
 
AD 766: August 25 – Emperor Constantine V publicly humiliates 19 high-ranking officials in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, after discovering a plot against him. He executes the leaders, Constantine Podopagouros and his brother Strategios, and blinds and exiles the rest.
 
AD 767: The Uyghur Khaganate went beyond adopting Manichaeism as a state religion and restructured state administration, written culture, and urban life around it, marking a major civilizational shift for the Turks.
 
AD 768: The Kasuga Shrine is erected at Nara (Japan), by the Fujiwara family. The interior is famous for its many bronze lanterns, as well as the stone lanterns that lead up to the Shinto shrine.
 
AD 769: The Uyghur Khaganate fills the power vacuum left by the Göktürks in Central Asia and becomes the dominant force in the region. During this period, the Uyghurs establish political and economic supremacy across Central Asia.
 
AD 771: The Karluk Turks consolidate their dominance in Semirechye and eastern Transoxiana, emerging as the most powerful Turkish group in the region. This rise lays the political foundation for the future Karakhanid state and the Turkish-Islamic synthesis.
 
AD 772: Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur completes construction of the garrison city of al-Rāfiqah adjacent to Raqqa.
 
AD 773: The number 0 is introduced to the city of Baghdad, which will be developed in the Middle East by Arabian mathematicians, who will base their numbers on the Indian system (long after the Maya culture developed the concept, cf. Maya numerals).
 
AD 774: The Khazar Turkish Khaganate launches major raids through the Caucasus into Abbasid-controlled Armenia and Azerbaijan. These campaigns reaffirm Khazar military dominance in the Caucasus and place constant pressure on the Abbasids’ northern frontier.
 
AD 775: Andalusian merchants set up an emporium (trade settlement) on the Maghreb coast at Ténès (modern Algeria). It is early evidence of the revival of the maritime trade in the Western Mediterranean, after the chaos of the early 8th century.
 
AD 778: Uyghur Khagan Bögü is assassinated in a palace coup due to his Manichaean policies and plans for a campaign against China. Alp Qutlugh Bilge Khagan succeeds him, redirecting the Uyghur state from expansionist warfare to internal consolidation.
 
AD 779: An earthquake in Silla with a magnitude of 6.7–7.0 on the Richter scale kills more than 100 people.
 
AD 781: The Nestorian Stele erected in Chang’an (Xi’an) records, through names and context, the presence and influence of Central Asian—Turkish-origin—communities in Tang China. It stands as a rare stone document reflecting the role of Turks in the religious and social life of the empire.
 
AD 782: Charlemagne summons Alcuin, Anglo-Saxon missionary, to Aachen, and appoints him as chief adviser on religious and educational matters. He becomes the leading scholar and teacher at the Carolingian court.
 
AD 783: A Byzantine expeditionary force under Staurakios, chief minister (logothete), begins a campaign against the communities (Sclaviniae) of Greece.
 
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AD 784: Saxon Wars: King Charlemagne begins a campaign in northern Saxony. He ravages Eastphalian territory as far as the Elbe River, while his son, Charles the Younger, defeats a Saxon force in the Lippe Valley. Bad weather hinders Charlemagne's winter campaign in southern Saxony.
 
AD 785: Caliph Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi is poisoned by one of his concubines. He is succeeded by his son Al-Hadi, who becomes the fourth ruler of the Abbasid Caliphate.
 
AD 786: King Charles the Younger, son of Charlemagne and ruler of Aquitaine, visits Monte Cassino and Capua, both in Beneventan territory. Prince Arechis II, feeling threatened by the Franks, decides that he needs to stop quarrelling with the Byzantine Duchy of Naples so he can focus on the Frankish foe. Prince Arechis II therefore signs a peace agreement, or 'pactum', with the Duchy of Naples.
 
AD 787: Maurizio Galbaio, doge of Venice, dies after a 22-year reign and is succeeded by his son Giovanni. He begins a vendetta against the patriarch of Grado (Italy).
 
AD 788: Byzantine troops led by Adalgis, son of former Lombard king Desiderius, invade southern Italy. His attempts are thwarted by the Franks, who attack territories in Benevento, obtaining notably the annexion of Chieti (Spoleto).
 
AD 789: An uprising in Japan leads to a major defeat for Emperor Kanmu, along with a severe drought and famine; the streets of the capital Nagaoka-kyō are clogged with the sick.
 
AD 790: Alcuin, Anglo-Saxon missionary, returns (after an 8-year absence) to England. During his stay at the Carolingian court of King Charlemagne in Aachen, he has educated his sons Charles, Pepin and Louis. Alcuin revises the church liturgy and the Bible, and is responsible for an intellectual movement within the Frankish Kingdom.
 
AD 791: Alfonso II, the son of former king Fruela I, becomes ruler of Asturias (Northern Spain). He moves the capital to Oviedo, the commercial centre of the region.
 
AD 792: September – King Æthelred I of Northumbria marries Princess Ælfflæd, daughter of King Offa of Mercia, at Catterick. Unrest in Northumbria tempts the exiled king Osred II back to his kingdom from the Isle of Man. His supporters desert him, and Osred II is killed by Æthelred's men at Aynburg. He is buried at Tynemouth Priory.
 
June 8 – Viking raiders attack the Northumbrian coast, arriving in longships from either Denmark or Norway, and sacking the monastery of Lindisfarne. Many of the monks are killed or enslaved. It is the first Viking attack on a monastery in the British Isles, although it is not the first known Viking attack in the British Isles. The first attack came in 789, when Vikings raided the settlement of Portland in Dorset.
 
AD 794: Kyoto becomes the Japanese capital, ending the Nara period, and beginning the Heian period; a Golden Age of Japanese culture begins that will endure under the domination of the Fujiwara, Minamoto, Tachibana and Taira families, until 1185.
 
AD 795: Pope Adrian I, age 95, dies after a 23-year reign, and is succeeded by Leo III as the 96th pope of Rome.
 
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