AD 787

This article is about the year. For the airliner, see Boeing 787. For the number, see 787 (number). For other uses, see 787 (disambiguation).

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

787 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	787 DCCLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1540
Armenian calendar	236 ԹՎ ՄԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	5537
Balinese saka calendar	708–709
Bengali calendar	194
Berber calendar	1737
Buddhist calendar	1331
Burmese calendar	149
Byzantine calendar	6295–6296
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 3484 or 3277     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3485 or 3278
Coptic calendar	503–504
Discordian calendar	1953
Ethiopian calendar	779–780
Hebrew calendar	4547–4548
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	843–844
- Shaka Samvat	708–709
- Kali Yuga	3887–3888
Holocene calendar	10787
Iranian calendar	165–166
Islamic calendar	170–171
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 6 (延暦６年)
Javanese calendar	682–683
Julian calendar	787 DCCLXXXVII
Korean calendar	3120
Minguo calendar	1125 before ROC 民前1125年
Nanakshahi calendar	−681
Seleucid era	1098/1099 AG
Thai solar calendar	1329–1330
Tibetan calendar	阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 913 or 532 or −240     — to — 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 914 or 533 or −239

Year 787 (DCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 787 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.

Events

By place

Europe

• Conall succeeds Drest as king of the Picts.

Africa

• After over 25 years of bloody conflict, the Abbasid army reconquers the whole of Maghrib.

By topic

Religion

• The Second Council of Nicaea ends the first iconoclastic period in the Byzantine Empire.

Births

• Abu Mas'har, Arabic scholar and astrologer

Deaths

• Arechis II of Benevento

Popular Culture

• The film ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' takes place in 787 A.D.