Paderborn is founded by Charles in 795…

The Frankish forces have from 791 warred against the Avars, who control the central Danube valley.

Charles, unsuccessful in tracking down and crushing the enemy after four years of campaigning, returns to his base at Regensburg to strengthen his forces on the eastern frontier.

The Pratihara holdings in Gujarat have declined under the two successors of Nagabhata I as the Rashtrakutras deal them a succession of military defeats and nibble away at their territory.

Malik ibn-Arias dies in Medina in 795, having produced the first legal digest of the Sharia.

Early medieval Cologne is part of Austrasia within the Frankish Empire.

Cologne had been the seat of a bishop since the Roman period; under Charles I, bishop Hildebold is in 795 promoted to archbishop.

Charles commissions eight bronze grille screens in 795 for the octagonal structure of his Palace Chapel at Aachen.

The Book of Kells may have been produced or begun on Iona towards the end of the eighth century.

Around this time, the island's exemplary high crosses are sculpted; these may be the first such crosses to contain the ring around the intersection that became characteristic of the "Celtic cross".

In the earliest recorded Viking raid on Scotland, Norse raiders attack Iona, Inisbofin and Inismurray.

Pope Adrian sponsors extensive building and fortification projects in Rome.

Aside from allying the papacy to the Frankish king, Adrian has worked for uniformity in liturgy and canon law.

He dies on December 25, 795.

The Cardinal-Priest of St. Susanna, and seemingly also vestiarius, or chief of the pontifical treasury, or wardrobe, succeeds him on December 26 as Leo III.

Polynesian seafarers are skilled ocean navigators and astronomers.

At a time when Western boats rarely go out of sight of land, Polynesians often travel long distances.

The early settlement history of Hawaiʻi is still not completely resolved.

Substantial archaeological as well as paleoecological evidence confirms Hawaiian settlement no later than 800 CE, and quite possibly as early as 300–500 CE (Kirch 1985; Athens 1997).

Some believe that the first Polynesians arrived in Hawaiʻi in the third century from the Marquesas.

The colonists brought along with them clothing, plants and livestock and established settlements along the coasts and larger valleys.

Upon their arrival, the settlers grew kalo (taro), maiʻa (banana), niu (coconut), ulu (breadfruit), and raised pua'a (pork), moa (chicken), and ʻīlio (poi dog), although these meats were eaten less often than fruits, vegetables, and seafood.

Popular condiments include pa'akai (salt), ground kukui nut, limu (seaweed), and ko (sugarcane) which is used as both a sweet and a medicine.

In addition to the foods they brought, the settlers also acquired ʻuala (sweet potato), which has yet to be adequately explained, as the plant originates in South America.

A few researchers have argued that the presence of the sweet potato in the ancient Hawaiian diet is evidence of pre-Columbian transoceanic contact with the Americas.

As soon as they arrived, the new settlers built hale (homes) and heiau (temples).

Archaeologists currently believe that the first settlements were on the southern end of the Big Island of Hawai'i and that they quickly extended northwards, along the seacoasts and the easily accessible river valleys.

As the population increased, settlements were made further inland.

The Tibetan people known as the Pyu have, for the past two centuries, migrated into the valleys of the upper Irrawaddy River and its Chindwin tributary.

Rather than push southward, the Pyu halt there in the northern Burmese dry zone.

The Pyu establish overland commercial and cultural contacts with such Indian border centers as Chittagong.

A monarch of central Java’s wealthy and powerful Saliendra dynasty establishes, in about 800, a major Buddhist monument at Borobudur, located about twenty-five miles (forty kilometers) from Jogjakarta.

The great shrine, built of dark gray volcanic stone with no interior spaces, crowns a small hill, and consists of a square base four hundred feet (one hundred and twenty-one meters) on each side.

Above the base are eight diminishing tiers of terraces—the lower five square, and bounded by a roofless corridor; the upper three unwalled and circular—connected by stairways.

From the uppermost terrace, a colossal stupa, or bell-shaped dome, rises another one hundred feet (thirty meters).

The walls of the lower five terraces of the great shrine feature intricately carved bands of narrative relief profusely illustrating the progress of the Bodhisattva in his striving for all-encompassing compassion.

The gently rounded contours of the ornate relief sculpture on each terrace depict a stage of the Bodhisattva’s development: the more mundane lower scenes contain moral lessons; the higher scenes, executed in a more severe and static in style, are more spiritual.

The upper three terraces carry seventy-two stupas containing large, stone-cut Buddha images, enclosed in stone latticework, which encircle the huge central stupa.

The complex in its entirety is an architectural mandala—the world’s largest—with the central stupa representing the world axis.

The walls of the lower five terraces of the great shrine feature intricately carved bands of narrative relief profusely illustrating the progress of the Bodhisattva in his striving for all-encompassing compassion.

The gently rounded contours of the ornate relief sculpture on each terrace depict a stage of the Bodhisattva’s development: the more mundane lower scenes contain moral lessons; the higher scenes, executed in a more severe and static in style, are more spiritual.