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Asia

• The Abbasid
  Abbasid
  
  The Abbasid Caliphate was the third of the Islamic Caliphates of the Islamic Empire. The Caliphate is one of the high points of Islam, and at the time Muslim civilization, together with that of Byzantium, China and India, was the most developed part of the world....
   capital is moved north from Baghdad
  Baghdad
  
  Baghdad is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq, and the second largest city in the Arab World....
   to Samarra
  Samarra
  
  Samarra is a city in Iraq.It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Salah al-Din Governorate, north of Baghdad and, in 2003, had an estimated population of 348,700....
  .

Europe

• Krum is king 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....
  ; the Dulo clan is restored.
• King Eardwulf is driven out of North-East England and succeeded by Alfwold II, but Eardwulf is restored following Alfwold’s death.

Births

• Gottschalk
  Gottschalk (theologian)
  
  Gottschalk , a theology, was born near Mainz, and was given to the monastic life from infancy by his parents. His father was a Saxon people, Count Bern....
  , German theologian
• Walafrid Strabo
  Walafrid Strabo
  
  Walafrid, alternatively spelt Walahfrid, surnamed Strabo , was a Franks monk and theology writer....
  , Swabian monk and theological writer
• Hunayn ibn Ishaq
  Hunayn ibn Ishaq
  
  Hunayn ibn Ishaq...
  , Arabian physician
  Physician
  
  A physician, medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, or medical doctor practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury....
  

Deaths

• Gisela, daughter of Charlemagne
  Gisela, daughter of Charlemagne
  
  Gisela was a daughter of Charlemagne from his marriage to Hildegard, wife of Charlemagne. Little is known of her life. She should not be confused with her aunt Gisela , after whom she was possibly named....
  
• Elipando
  Elipando
  
  Elipando was a Spain archbishop and theology. He proposed Jesus as adoption rather than the natural son of God - a theory which is now known as adoptionism....
  , Spanish archbishop and theologian
• Eanbald II
  Eanbald II
  
  Eanbald II was an eighth century Archbishop of York and correspondent of Alcuin...
  , Archbishop of York
• Layman Pang
  Layman Pang
  
  Layman Pang was a celebrated Householder Buddhism in the Chinese Ch?n tradition. Much like Vimalakirti, who is said to have lived around the time of the Gautama Buddha in the 6th to 4th centuries BCE, Layman Pang is considered a model of the potential of the non-Bhikkhu Buddhist follower to live an exemplary Buddhist life....
  , lay Buddhist
• Bl.Widukind
  Widukind
  
  Widukind was a Saxons leader and the chief opponent of Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars. In later times, he became a symbol of Saxon independence and a figure of legend, and was stylized as a prototypical Germanic peoples hero....
  , Duke of Saxony