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Byzantine Empire

• 31 October — Irene is deposed as Empress of Byzantium, replaced by Nicephorus I, and banished to Lesbos
  Lesbos Island
  
  Lesbos is a Greece List of islands of Greece located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of 1632 Square kilometre with 320 kilometres of coastline, making it the third largest Greek island and the largest of the numerous Greek islands scattered in the Aegean....
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Europe

• Krum becomes Khan of Bulgaria
  Bulgaria
  
  The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
   (until 814
  814
  
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• Egbert
  Egbert of Wessex
  
  Egbert was King of Wessex from 802 until 839. His father was Ealhmund of Kent. In the 780s Egbert was forced into exile by Offa of Mercia and Beorhtric of Wessex, but on Beorhtric's death in 802 Egbert returned and took the throne....
   becomes king of Wessex
  Wessex
  
  West Saxon redirects here. For other meanings of Wessex or West Saxon see Wessex .Wessex , from the Old English Westseaxe , was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the West Saxons, in South West England, from the 6th century, until the emergence of the English state in the 9th century, under the Wessex dynasty....
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• The Viking
  Viking
  
  A Viking is one of the Norsemen explorers, warriors, merchants, and Piracy who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the late eighth to the early eleventh century....
  s sack Iona
  Iona
  
  Iona is a small island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland that has an important place in the history of Christianity in Scotland and is renowned for its tranquility and natural beauty....
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Asia

• Jayavarman II
  Jayavarman II
  
  Founder of the First Dynasty of AngkorJayavarman II , a 9th century king of Cambodia, is widely recognized as the founder of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of the Southeast Asian mainland for more than six hundred years....
   declares the Khmer Empire
  Khmer Empire
  
  The Khmer Empire was the largest empire of South East Asia based in what is now Cambodia. The empire, which seceded from the kingdom of Chenla, at times ruled over and/or vassalised parts of modern-day Laos, Thailand,Vietnam, Myanmar, and Malaysia....
   independent and establishes the kingdom of Angkor
  Angkor
  
  Angkor is a name conventionally applied to the region of Cambodia serving as the seat of the Khmer empire that flourished from approximately the ninth century to the fifteenth century A.D....
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Religion

• The Haeinsa
  Haeinsa
  
  Haeinsa is one of the foremost Chogye Buddhist temples in South Korea. It is most notable for being the home of the Tripitaka Koreana, the whole of the Buddhist Scriptures carved onto 81,258 wooden printing blocks, which it has housed since 1398....
   Temple is established in Korea
  Korea
  
  Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
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Births

• Hugh, son of Charlemagne
  Hugh, son of Charlemagne
  
  Hugh was the illegitimate son of Charlemagne and his concubine Regina , with whom he had one other son: Bishop Drogo of Metz .Hugh was the abbot of several abbacies: Saint-Quentin , Lobbes Abbey , and Saint-Bertin ....
  

Deaths

• Æthelmund
  Æthelmund
  
  ?thelmund, an Anglo-Saxon noble, was Ealdorman of Hwicce in the late 8th century, perhaps living into the early 9th century. ?thelmund's predecessors had been kings, but he was a subject of the king of Mercia....
  , Earl of Hwicce
  Hwicce
  
  The Hwicce were one of the peoples of Anglo-Saxons. The exact boundaries of their kingdom are uncertain, though it is likely that they coincided with those of the old Anglican Diocese of Worcester, founded in 679?80, the early bishops of which bore the title Episcopus Hwicciorum....
   (in battle)
• Beorhtric of Wessex
  Beorhtric of Wessex
  
  Beorhtric was the List of monarchs of Wessex of Wessex from 786 until his death.In 786, Cynewulf of Wessex, king of Wessex, was killed by the exiled noble Cyneheard, brother of the former King Sigeberht....