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779

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Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
779 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar779
DCCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita1532
Armenian calendar228
ԹՎ ՄԻԸ
Assyrian calendar5529
Balinese saka calendar700–701
Bengali calendar186
Berber calendar1729
Buddhist calendar1323
Burmese calendar141
Byzantine calendar6287–6288
Chinese calendar戊午年 (Earth Horse)
3476 or 3269
    — to —
己未年 (Earth Goat)
3477 or 3270
Coptic calendar495–496
Discordian calendar1945
Ethiopian calendar771–772
Hebrew calendar4539–4540
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat835–836
 - Shaka Samvat700–701
 - Kali Yuga3879–3880
Holocene calendar10779
Iranian calendar157–158
Islamic calendar162–163
Japanese calendarHōki 10
(宝亀10年)
Javanese calendar674–675
Julian calendar779
DCCLXXIX
Korean calendar3112
Minguo calendar1133 before ROC
民前1133年
Nanakshahi calendar−689
Seleucid era1090/1091 AG
Thai solar calendar1321–1322
Tibetan calendar阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
905 or 524 or −248
    — to —
阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
906 or 525 or −247
Emperor De Zong (Li Kuo) (742–805)

Year 779 (DCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 779 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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Asia

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  • March, days unknown - An earthquake in Silla with a magnitude of 6.7–7.0 on the Richter scale kills more than 100 people.

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References

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  1. ^ David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 17. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5.