784

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	750s  760s  770s  – 780s –  790s  800s  810s
Years:	781 782 783 – 784 – 785 786 787

784 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	784 DCCLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1537
Armenian calendar	233 ԹՎ ՄԼԳ
Assyrian calendar	5534
Balinese saka calendar	705–706
Bengali calendar	191
Berber calendar	1734
Buddhist calendar	1328
Burmese calendar	146
Byzantine calendar	6292–6293
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3480 or 3420     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3481 or 3421
Coptic calendar	500–501
Discordian calendar	1950
Ethiopian calendar	776–777
Hebrew calendar	4544–4545
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	840–841
- Shaka Samvat	705–706
- Kali Yuga	3884–3885
Holocene calendar	10784
Iranian calendar	162–163
Islamic calendar	167–168
Japanese calendar	Enryaku 3 (延暦３年)
Javanese calendar	679–680
Julian calendar	784 DCCLXXXIV
Korean calendar	3117
Minguo calendar	1128 before ROC 民前1128年
Nanakshahi calendar	−684
Seleucid era	1095/1096 AG
Thai solar calendar	1326–1327
Tibetan calendar	阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 910 or 529 or −243     — to — 阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 911 or 530 or −242

784 (DCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 784th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 784th year of the 1st millennium, the 84th year of the 8th century, and the 5th year of the 780s decade. As of the start of 784, the Gregorian calendar was 4 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

• The Japanese capital moved away from Nara. End of the Nara period.
• The Chinese engineer and prince Li Gao invents a successful model of a paddle-wheel ship.
• August 31—Paul IV abdicates as Patriarch of Constantinople
• December 25—Tarasius elected Patriarch of Constantinople