787

Events

• Second Council of Nicaea ends the first iconoclastic period in the Byzantine Empire
• Canual succeeds Talorgen as king of the Picts.
• Mass slaughter of heathen Saxons at Verden by Charlemagne.
• the first three Viking ships landed in Wessex/England and the Norsemen started to plunder towns and coastal monasteries

Births

• Abu Mas'har , scholar

Deaths