778

Events

By Place

Europe

• August 15 — Battle of Roncevaux (Roncesvalles): Charlemagne's army suffers a terrible defeat at the hand of the Basques. Among those killed is Roland, lord of the Breton March; the 11th-century Song of Roland is loosely based on the events of this battle.
• Charlemagne fights the Moors in Spain.
• Widukind returns to Saxony from Denmark.

Births

• 16 April — King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
• Zhaozhou, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk
• Liu Gongquan, noted Chinese calligrapher
• Emperor Xianzong of Tang, China

Deaths

• August 15 — Roland, Frankish commander
• Autpert Ambrose, monk and writeraf:778

am:778 እ.ኤ.አ. ar:778 an:778 ast:778 az:778 bn:৭৭৮ map-bms:778 be:778 bh:७७८ bs:778 br:778 bg:778 ca:778 cv:778 cs:778 co:778 cy:778 da:778 de:778 et:778 el:778 es:778 eo:778 eu:778 fr:778 gl:778 ko:778년 hi:778 hr:778. io:778 bpy:মারি ৭৭৮ id:778 is:778 it:778 he:778 jv:778 ka:778 sw:778 ht:778 (almanak jilyen) la:778 lb:778 lmo:778 hu:778 mk:778 mr:इ.स. ७७८ ms:778 nah:778 nl:778 new:७७८ ja:778年 nap:778 no:778 nn:778 oc:778 uz:778 pi:७७८ pl:778 pt:778 ksh:Joohr 778 ro:778 ru:778 год sa:७७८ sq:778 scn:778 sk:778 sl:778 sr:778 su:778 fi:778 sv:778 tt:778 th:พ.ศ. 1321 tr:778 uk:778 vec:778 zh-yue:778年