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Europe

• Saxon War: The Slav Obodrites, under their ruler Witzan, attack the northern Saxons in Liuni. He is killed in an ambush and succeeded by his son Drożko, who becomes a Carolingian dux. King Charlemagne leads a Frankish expeditionary force north from Mainz, and marches to the Elbe, where eastern Saxon rebels again surrender.
• Charlemagne creates the Spanish March, a buffer zone beyond the former province of Septimania. A group of Iberian lordships form a defensive barrier between the Umayyad Moors of Al-Andalus and the Frankish Kingdom.

  Britain

• Quarrels between the kings Cynan Dindaethwy and Hywel leave the way open for Caradog ap Meirion to usurp the throne of Gwynedd.
• King Offa of Mercia receives diplomatic gifts from Charlemagne. He re-founds St. Albans Abbey, supposedly in thanks for overrunning East Anglia.
• In the earliest recorded Viking raid on Ireland, they attack the monasteries at Iona, Inishbofin and Inishmurray.

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Religion

• December 25 – Pope Adrian I, age 95, dies after a 23-year reign, and is succeeded by Leo III as the 96th pope of Rome.
• Paul the Deacon, a Benedictine monk at Monte Cassino, completes the History of the Lombards.