Events By place Europe Charlemagne conquers Bavaria. Bermudo I succeeds Mauregato as king of Asturias. Africa Morocco becomes an independent state. By topic Religion Start of the period covered in Adam of Bremen's history of the archbishopry of Hamburg. Births Adi Shankara, the first philosopher to consolidate the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta, a sub-school of Vedanta Deaths Abd-ar-rahman I, founder of the Spanish Umayyad dynasty Mazu Daoyi, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (b. 709) Adalgis, prince of t… (More on 788)