The Uighur khagan is given the added title Changshou Tianqin Khagan and Princess Xian'an is enfeoffed (marriage alliance). (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑 卷233)
Waake no Kiyomaro requests the construction of a canal and embankments on the border of Kawachi and Settsu, using about 230,000 laborers. (Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) 續日本紀 卷第39 「甲子。中宮大夫從四位」)
On the fourth day of the third month, the Dazaifu reports that at Sonomine in Sōyo District, Ōsumi Province, fire broke out with a sound like thunder, and sand fell in heaps. (Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicles of Japan) 續日本紀 卷第39 「秋七月己酉。大宰府言」)
At the Ingelheim assembly, the Bavarians accuse Tassilo of treason for having brought in the Huns at his wife's urging; he is unanimously sentenced to death, but the king commutes it to monastic life out of mercy. His son Theodo is also shaved, and the Bavarians involved are exiled (Royal Frankish Annals ARF(Einhard판) a.788, Kurze 1895 p.81)
The Huns divide their army and attack the Friulian frontier and Bavaria, but are defeated in both places and withdraw with great losses. Coming back in greater force to take revenge on Bavaria, they are crushed in the first clash and many drown trying to cross the Danube (Royal Frankish Annals ARF(Einhard판) a.788, Kurze 1895 p.83)
Byzantine Emperor Constantine, angered by the refusal of his daughter's betrothal, sends Theodore, governor of Sicily, to plunder Beneventan territory. The new duke Grimoald and Hildebrand, Duke of Spoleto, meet them in Calabria and win a great victory (Royal Frankish Annals ARF(Einhard판) a.788, Kurze 1895 p.83)
Changes of power ◆
Places where the world territory data shows a change of borders in this year.
◆ Bavarians ends
◆ Rashtrakuta Empire takes 233,900 km² of former Pratihara dynasty land
◆ Pala Empire takes 169,900 km² of former Pratihara dynasty land
◆ Francia takes 120,900 km² of former Bavarians land
◆ Pratihara dynasty loses 233,900 km² to Rashtrakuta Empire
◆ Pratihara dynasty loses 169,900 km² to Pala Empire