750

Year 750 (DCCL) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 750 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:
750 by topic
Leaders
  • Political entities
  • State leaders
  • Religious leaders
Categories
  • Births
  • Deaths
  • Establishments
750 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar750
DCCL
Ab urbe condita1503
Armenian calendar199
ԹՎ ՃՂԹ
Assyrian calendar5500
Balinese saka calendar671–672
Bengali calendar157
Berber calendar1700
Buddhist calendar1294
Burmese calendar112
Byzantine calendar6258–6259
Chinese calendar己丑年 (Earth Ox)
3446 or 3386
    — to —
庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
3447 or 3387
Coptic calendar466–467
Discordian calendar1916
Ethiopian calendar742–743
Hebrew calendar4510–4511
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat806–807
 - Shaka Samvat671–672
 - Kali Yuga3850–3851
Holocene calendar10750
Iranian calendar128–129
Islamic calendar132–133
Japanese calendarTenpyō-shōhō 2
(天平勝宝２年)
Javanese calendar644–645
Julian calendar750
DCCL
Korean calendar3083
Minguo calendar1162 before ROC
民前1162年
Nanakshahi calendar−718
Seleucid era1061/1062 AG
Thai solar calendar1292–1293
Tibetan calendar阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
876 or 495 or −277
    — to —
阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
877 or 496 or −276
Map of the Great Zab river (Northern Iraq)
The Great Zab river near Erbil (Iraq)

Events

Umayyad Caliphate
  • January 25 – Battle of the Zab: Abbasid forces under Abdallah ibn Ali defeat the Umayyads near the Great Zab River. Members of the Umayyad house are hunted down and killed. Defeated by his rivals, Caliph Marwan II flees westward to Egypt, perhaps attempting to reach Al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), where there are still significant Umayyad armies.[1]
Al-Saffah became caliph (ruler) of the Islamic Caliphate on 25 January 750. He ruled from 750 to 10 June 754.
  • August 6 – Marwan II is caught and killed at Faiyum by supporters of the Abbasid caliph As-Saffah. Almost the entire Umayyad Dynasty is assassinated; Prince Abd al-Rahman I escapes to Al-Andalus. The Abbasids assume control of the Islamic world and establish their first capital at Kufa.

Europe
  • King Alfonso I of Asturias establishes the Kingdom of Galicia, in roughly the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. The exact time this happened is contested.
  • The town Slaný in the Central Bohemian Region (Czech Republic) is founded at the site of a salt spring, according to one chronicle written in the sixteenth century (approximate date).

Britain
  • King Eadberht of Northumbria imprisons Cynewulf, bishop of Lindisfarne, at Bamburgh Castle. King Eadberht does this in order to punish the bishop for sheltering one of his enemies, Prince Offa. He then besieges Prince Offa, son of the late King Aldfrith, in Lindisfarne Priory. Almost dead from hunger, he is dragged from his sanctuary and put to death.[2]
  • Battle of Mugdock: The Strathclyde Britons under King Teudebur defeat Prince Talorgan of the Picts. This leads to the decline of the power of King Óengus I.[3]

Africa

India
  • Gopala I is proclaimed as the first ruler and founder of the Pala Empire.

America
  • Native Americans, in the area now known as the Four Corners, begin constructing and occupying pueblos.
  • The city of Teotihuacan (modern Mexico) is destroyed and left in ruins, its palaces burned to the ground.

Indonesia
  • Borobudur, or Barabudur (a Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, as well as the world's largest Buddhist temple, and also one of the greatest Buddhist monuments in the world) is built (approximate date).

Art

Food and drink

Births
  • January 25 – Leo IV, Byzantine emperor (d. 780)
  • Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf, Abbasid poet (d. 809)
  • Abd al-Malik ibn Salih, Abbasid general (d. 812)
  • Arno, archbishop of Salzburg (approximate date)
  • Bermudo I, king of Asturias (approximate date)
  • Clement, Irish scholar and saint (approximate date)
  • Eigil of Fulda, Bavarian abbot (approximate date)
  • Hildegrim, bishop of Châlons (approximate date)
  • Leo III, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 816)
  • Ragnvald Sigurdsson, great-grandfather to Harald Hårfagre
  • Sawara, Japanese prince (approximate date)
  • Theodulf, bishop of Orléans (or 760)
  • Wu Shaocheng, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 810)

Deaths
  • January 25 – Ibrahim ibn al-Walid, Umayyad caliph
  • August 6 – Marwan II, Umayyad caliph (b. 688)
  • Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad prince (or 749)
  • Agilulfus, bishop of Cologne (approximate date)
  • Al-Abbas ibn al-Walid, Umayyad prince and general
  • Basil the Confessor, Eastern Orthodox saint
  • Boruth, prince (knyaz) of Carantania (approximate date)
  • Bressal mac Áedo Róin, Dál Fiatach king of Ulaid
  • Burchard, bishop of Würzburg (approximate date)
  • Himelin, Scottish priest (approximate date)
  • Inreachtach mac Dluthach, king of Uí Maine (Ireland)
  • Irene of Khazaria, Byzantine empress (approximate date)
  • Isonokami no Otomaro, Japanese nobleman
  • Veborg, Scandinavian shieldmaiden (approximate date)

References
  1. David Nicolle (2009). The Great Islamic Conquests 632–750 AD, p. 79. ISBN 978-1-84603-273-8.
  2. Higham, pp. 148–149; Kirby, p. 150; York, Kings, p. 89.
  3. Stringer, Keith (1998). Alexander, Grant (ed.). Medieval Scotland. Columbia University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-7486-1110-2.
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