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Valefor appears for the first time. He steals the Word of Genubath, prince of Rapine; Genubath disappears, and Lucifer makes Valefor the demon prince of Theft. Unable to ascertain the new prince's origin, Asmodeus places him under investigation.
== Asia ==
Arab traders make Baghdad a financial center of the Silk Road between China and Europe. Caravans carry little or no money on their long journeys; Chinese traders use what they call fei qian ("flying money") to avoid robbery. The Arabs have adopted a similar banking system known as hawala to transmit funds. Idriss I, Muslim emir and founder of the Idrisid Dynasty, dies.
Li Ning, prince of the Tang Dynasty, is born (will die in 812). Wei Mo, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty, is born (will die in 858). Wu Yuanji, general of the Tang Dynasty, is born. Zhou Chi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty, is born (will die in 851)
Theophylact, Byzantine co-emperor, is born.
=== August 17 ===
Quriaqos of Tagrit is consecrated Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch at Harran.
== Europe ==
King Charlemagne orders a 3 kilometre long channel dug from Treuchtlingen to Weißenburg (the Rhine and Danube river basins), to improve the transportation of goods between the Rhineland and Bavaria. Charlemagne's son, Pepin of Italy, campaigns against the Lombards in Benevento (Southern Italy). Arnulf of Sens, Frankish nobleman, is born.
Frisian–Frankish War: Count Theoderic is sent to Frisia, to muster troops for another offensive against the Avar Khaganate. He is attacked and probably killed by Saxon rebels, near the mouth of the Weser River. The Frisians revolt, and Charlemagne deports Saxon families from north of the river Elbe.
Emir Hisham I of Córdoba calls for a jihad ("Holy War") against the Christian Franks. He assembles an army of 70,000 men, half of which attacks the Kingdom of Asturias, destroying its capitol, Oviedo, while the other half invades Languedoc, penetrating as far as Narbonne. After capturing the city, the contingent moved towards Carcassonne and conquered it too. Both armies return to Córdoba enriched with the spoils of war.
King Offa of Mercia founds an abbey at St. Albans.
=== February 22 ===
Sicga, Anglo-Saxon nobleman, dies.
=== June 8 ===
Viking raiders attack the Northumbrian coast, arriving in longships from either Denmark or Norway, and sacking the monastery of Lindisfarne. Many of the monks are killed or enslaved. It is the first Viking attack on a monastery in the British Isles, although it is not the first known Viking attack in the British Isles. The first attack came in 789, when Vikings raided the settlement of Portland in Dorset.
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