787 - Definition and Overview

This article is about the year 787. For the aircraft, see Boeing 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