Year 788 (DCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 788th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 788th year of the 1st millennium, the 88th year of the 8th century, and the 9th year of the 780s decade. The denomination 788 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium
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788 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar788
DCCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita1541
Armenian calendar237
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Assyrian calendar5538
Balinese saka calendar709–710
Bengali calendar195
Berber calendar1738
Buddhist calendar1332
Burmese calendar150
Byzantine calendar6296–6297
Chinese calendar丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
3485 or 3278
    — to —
戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
3486 or 3279
Coptic calendar504–505
Discordian calendar1954
Ethiopian calendar780–781
Hebrew calendar4548–4549
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat844–845
 - Shaka Samvat709–710
 - Kali Yuga3888–3889
Holocene calendar10788
Iranian calendar166–167
Islamic calendar171–172
Japanese calendarEnryaku 7
(延暦7年)
Javanese calendar683–684
Julian calendar788
DCCLXXXVIII
Korean calendar3121
Minguo calendar1124 before ROC
民前1124年
Nanakshahi calendar−680
Seleucid era1099/1100 AG
Thai solar calendar1330–1331
Tibetan calendar阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
914 or 533 or −239
    — to —
阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
915 or 534 or −238
Ōnakatomi no Kiyomaro (702–788)

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Byzantine Empire

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Europe

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Britain

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Abbasid Caliphate

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Gold dinar of caliph Harun al-Rashid dated AH 171 (AD 788)

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Religion

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References

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  1. ^ Treadgold 1988, p. 91.
  2. ^ Dr. R. Hennig, Katalog bemerkenswerter Witterungsereignisse. Berlin 1904; Originalquellen: Aventinus (Turmair), Johannes (gest. 1534): Annales Boiorum. Mit Nachtrag. Leipzig 1710; Annales Fuldenses, Chronik des Klosters Fulda. Bei Marquard Freher: Germanicarum rerum scriptores ua Frankfurt aM 1600–1611)
  3. ^ "Tornadoliste Deutschland". https://tornadoliste.de/788. German meteorological list of documented tornadoes
  4. ^ A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period, Jamil M. Abun-Nasr, 1987, p. 52

Sources

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  • Treadgold, Warren (1988). The Byzantine Revival, 780–842. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1462-4.