787
| 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 | |
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/England and the Norsemen started to plunder towns and coastal monasteries
- Abu Mas'har, scholar