770

Year 770 (DCCLXX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 770 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:
770 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar770
DCCLXX
Ab urbe condita1523
Armenian calendar219
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Assyrian calendar5520
Balinese saka calendar691–692
Bengali calendar177
Berber calendar1720
Buddhist calendar1314
Burmese calendar132
Byzantine calendar6278–6279
Chinese calendar己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
3466 or 3406
     to 
庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
3467 or 3407
Coptic calendar486–487
Discordian calendar1936
Ethiopian calendar762–763
Hebrew calendar4530–4531
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat826–827
 - Shaka Samvat691–692
 - Kali Yuga3870–3871
Holocene calendar10770
Iranian calendar148–149
Islamic calendar152–154
Japanese calendarJingo-keiun 4 / Hōki 1
(宝亀元年)
Javanese calendar664–665
Julian calendar770
DCCLXX
Korean calendar3103
Minguo calendar1142 before ROC
民前1142年
Nanakshahi calendar−698
Seleucid era1081/1082 AG
Thai solar calendar1312–1313
Tibetan calendar阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
896 or 515 or −257
     to 
阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
897 or 516 or −256
Portrait of Du Fu (712–770)

Events

Europe

  • King Charlemagne signs a peace treaty with Duke Tassilo III of Bavaria, and marries the Lombard princess Desiderata (daughter of King Desiderius). He travels to the Lombard court at Pavia to conclude arrangements. Pope Stephen III opposes the marriage, and protests about a Frankish-Lombard alliance.[1]
  • Hedeby, an important trading settlement, in the Danish-northern German borderland is founded (approximate date).

Britain

  • King Alhred of Northumbria takes an interest in continental missionary activities, and sends Willehad to Frisia in modern-day Netherlands (approximate date).

Abbasid Caliphate

  • Caliph al-Mansur orders the closing of the Canal of the Pharaohs (Egypt). The only remaining land routes to transship camel caravans' goods are from Alexandria to ports on the Red Sea, or the northern Byzantine termini of the Silk Road.

Asia

Births

  • Ansegisus, Frankish abbot (approximate date)
  • Jayavarman II, founder of the Khmer Empire (d. 835)
  • Michael I, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 844)
  • Michael II, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 829)
  • Pepin of Italy, son of Charlemagne (or 773)
  • Prokopia, empress of the Byzantine Empire (approximate date)
  • Stephen IV, pope of the Catholic Church (approximate date)
  • Sugawara no Kiyotomo, Japanese nobleman (d. 842)

Deaths

  • August 28 Kōken, empress of Japan (b. 718)
  • Cennselach mac Brain, king of the Uí Ceinnselaig (Ireland)
  • Du Fu, Chinese poet (b. 712)
  • Ma'n ibn Za'ida al-Shaybani, Arab general (or 769)
  • Modestus, Irish missionary (approximate date)
  • Opportuna of Montreuil, Frankish abbess
  • Tóim Snáma mac Flainn, king of Osraige (Ireland)

References

  1. McKitterick, Rosamond, Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity (2008), p. 84
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