Year by year · 8th century

791 CE

791 CE in world history: 4 events, 1 birth and 1 death. 288 recorded states existed that year.

ProfileState204 states with a known seat in 791 CEOpen the atlas at 791 CE →

In the profiles

  • Avar KhaganateCharlemagne campaigns down the Danube against the Avars
  • Kingdom of AsturiasAlfonso II becomes king and makes Oviedo the royal capital
  • Idrisid dynastyIdris I is poisoned by an Abbasid agent; his posthumous son Idris II is brought up under the regency of the freedman Rashid.

Wars and longer events

Born in 791 CE 1

Died in 791 CE 1

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