Events By Place Europe The second Battle of Roncevaux Pass's fought between the Basques and the Franks. China The Chinese government takes over the issuing of paper bank drafts, the ancestor of paper money. Births April 12 — Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (d. 835) Deaths January 11 — Stauracius, Byzantine emperor Du You, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (born 735)… (More on 812)