Year in Japan

800 in Japanese History

2 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).

Era name: Enryaku 延暦 (year 19 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hi Province 火国 · Province of Japan — province of Japan
Tōdai-ji Temple 東大寺 · Buddhist temple — Japanese Buddhist temple in Nara

Reading the year 800 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 800 corresponds to Enryaku 延暦 (year 19 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".

The year itself is read 800年 (800ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 8th century for its neighbours.