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Events

By Place

Europe

• Charlemagne summons the monk and scholar Alcuin of York to head the palace school at Aachen in order to inspire the revival of education in Europe.
• The Massacre of Verden is ordered by Charlemagne against the Saxons.
• An Arab army appears before Constantinople for the last time.

Births

Deaths

• Emperor Kōnin, emperor of Japan (b. 709)

References

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