786

786 (DCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 786th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 786th year of the 1st millennium, the 86th year of the 8th century, and the 7th year of the 780s decade. As of the start of 786, the Gregorian calendar was 4 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	750s  760s  770s  – 780s –  790s  800s  810s
Years:	783 784 785 – 786 – 787 788 789

786 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	786 DCCLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1539
Armenian calendar	235 ԹՎ ՄԼԵ
Assyrian calendar	5536
Balinese saka calendar	707–708
Bengali calendar	193
Berber calendar	1736
Buddhist calendar	1330
Burmese calendar	148
Byzantine calendar	6294–6295
Chinese calendar	乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 3482 or 3422     — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 3483 or 3423
Coptic calendar	502–503
Discordian calendar	1952
Ethiopian calendar	778–779
Hebrew calendar	4546–4547
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	842–843
- Shaka Samvat	707–708
- Kali Yuga	3886–3887
Holocene calendar	10786
Iranian calendar	164–165
Islamic calendar	169–170
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 5 (延暦５年)
Javanese calendar	681–682
Julian calendar	786 DCCLXXXVI
Korean calendar	3119
Minguo calendar	1126 before ROC 民前1126年
Nanakshahi calendar	−682
Seleucid era	1097/1098 AG
Thai solar calendar	1328–1329
Tibetan calendar	阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 912 or 531 or −241     — to — 阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 913 or 532 or −240

Events

• A council is organized in Constantinople, but disturbed by soldiers
• Beatus of Liébana, Spanish monk, publishes his Commentary on the Apocalypse.
• September 14 — Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad upon the death of his brother al-Hadi, and appoints Salim Yunisi as the Abbasid governor of Sindh and the Indus Valley. Harun al-Rashid rules until 809.

Births

• Emperor Saga, emperor of Japan
• Emperor Junna, emperor of Japan
• Hirohito, emperor of Japan