749

Year 749 (DCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 749 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
749 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar749
DCCXLIX
Ab urbe condita1502
Armenian calendar198
ԹՎ ՃՂԸ
Assyrian calendar5499
Balinese saka calendar670–671
Bengali calendar156
Berber calendar1699
Buddhist calendar1293
Burmese calendar111
Byzantine calendar6257–6258
Chinese calendar戊子年 (Earth Rat)
3445 or 3385
     to 
己丑年 (Earth Ox)
3446 or 3386
Coptic calendar465–466
Discordian calendar1915
Ethiopian calendar741–742
Hebrew calendar4509–4510
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat805–806
 - Shaka Samvat670–671
 - Kali Yuga3849–3850
Holocene calendar10749
Iranian calendar127–128
Islamic calendar131–132
Japanese calendarTenpyō 21 / Tenpyō-kanpō 1
(天平感宝元年)
Javanese calendar643–644
Julian calendar749
DCCXLIX
Korean calendar3082
Minguo calendar1163 before ROC
民前1163年
Nanakshahi calendar−719
Seleucid era1060/1061 AG
Thai solar calendar1291–1292
Tibetan calendar阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
875 or 494 or −278
     to 
阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
876 or 495 or −277
King Aistulf of the Lombards

Events

Europe

  • King Ratchis of the Lombards besieges Perugia, but is convinced to lift the siege by Pope Zachary. His decision to lift the siege of Perugia undermines his authority among the Lombard nobility, and ultimately results in the nobility deposing him at a council in Milan. King Ratchis is forced to retire with his family to the monastery at Monte Cassino.
  • June Aistulf succeeds his brother, Ratchis, as king of the Lombards and marries Gisaltruda, sister of Anselm, Duke of Friuli.

Britain

  • King Ælfwald of East Anglia dies after a 36-year reign. He is succeeded by Beonna, Æthelberht I and possibly Hun (relationship unknown). Beonna emerges as the dominant monarch.
  • King Æthelbald of Mercia calls the Synod of Gumley, at the instigation of Boniface, bishop of Mainz, and issues a charter that releases the Catholic Church from all public burdens.

Arabian Empire

  • Abbasid Revolution: Muslim forces under Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i defeat a large Umayyad army (50,000 men) at Isfahan, and invade Iraq, taking the city of Kufa.
  • Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad prince, is executed by crucifixion on orders of the first Abbasid caliph, Abdullah ibn Muhammad, at Al-Hirah (or 750).
  • October 28 Abdullah ibn Muhammad is proclaimed caliph at Kufa by his supporters and adopts the title of al-Saffah (the "Slaughterer of Blood").[1]

Central America

  • February 18 Kʼakʼ Yipyaj Chan Kʼawiil ("Smoke Squirrel") becomes the new ruler of the Mayan city state of Copán in Honduras upon the death of Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Yopaat, who had reigned since 738. K'ak' Yipyaj reigns until 763.

Japan

  • August 19 Emperor Shōmu abdicates the throne, after a 25-year reign that has been dominated by his wife (and aunt), Kōmyō, a commoner he married at age 16. He is succeeded by his daughter Kōken; Shōmu becomes the first retired emperor to become a Buddhist priest.[2]

Catastrophe

Births

  • Muhammad al-Shaybani, Muslim jurist (approximate date)

Deaths

  • August 27 Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i, Muslim general
  • December 4 John of Damascus, Syrian monk and priest
  • Ælfwald, king of East Anglia
  • Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad prince (or 750)
  • Ailello hui Daimine, king of Uí Maine (Ireland)
  • Gyōki, Japanese Buddhist priest (b. 668)

References

  1. David Nicolle (2009). The Great Islamic Conquests 632–750 AD, p. 78. ISBN 978-1-84603-273-8
  2. Varley, H. Paul (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04940-4
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