AD 787

This article is about the year 787 AD. For the aircraft, see Boeing 787. For other uses of this term, see 787 (disambiguation).

Years: 783 784 785 786 - 787 - 788 789 790 791

Decades: 750s 760s 770s - 780s - 790s 800s 810s

Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century

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	193–194
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

Events

• Second Council of Nicaea ends the first iconoclastic period in the Byzantine Empire
• Canual succeeds Talorgen as king of the Picts.
• the first three Viking ships landed in Wessex and the Norsemen started to plunder towns and coastal monasteries

Births

• Abu Mas'har, scholar