Bao Fang, of Hedong, was defeated by the Uyghurs at Yangqu; the Uyghurs invaded Bingzhou. (New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals 新唐書 卷006 肅宗·代宗 大曆13年1月)
In January 778, Liuhou Bao Fang does not obey; he sends the general Jiao Boyu and others to fight, but on the day guiyou they meet the enemy at Yangqu, are routed and return, with more than 10,000 dead. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 권225 778년 항)
Japan (3)
Ranks are granted to 2,267 persons of Mutsu and Dewa, from the provincial governors down, who showed merit in the campaign; Iji no Atai Azamaro also receives Outer Fifth Rank, lower grade. (Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) 續日本紀 卷第35 「六月庚子。賜陸奥出羽」)
The third ship of the Tang embassy reaches Tachibana Port in Matsura District, Hizen Province; Ono no Shigeno reports, including that it set out from the sea in the sixth month of the seventh year and arrived at Hailing County in Yangzhou. (Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) 續日本紀 卷第35 「乙未。遣唐使第三船到」)
The fourth Tang-bound ship reaches Koshiki District in Satsuma. Judge Umino Mitori and others drift to Tamna (Jeju) and are held there; the recorder Hanguk Yeonwon and others escape. (Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) 續日本紀 卷第35 「壬子。遣唐第四船來泊」)
Western Europe (1)
The Saxons raid as far as the Rhine and devastate with fire and sword the villages from Diutia to the confluence of the Moselle. Hearing this at Aachen, the king sends East Frankish and Alamannian troops, who ambush them at the Adernach River in Hesse and defeat them badly (Royal Frankish Annals ARF(Einhard판) a.778, Kurze 1895 p.53)
Changes of power ◆
Places where the world territory data shows a change of borders in this year.