771

The year 771 (DCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 771 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:
771 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar771
DCCLXXI
Ab urbe condita1524
Armenian calendar220
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Assyrian calendar5521
Balinese saka calendar692–693
Bengali calendar178
Berber calendar1721
Buddhist calendar1315
Burmese calendar133
Byzantine calendar6279–6280
Chinese calendar庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
3467 or 3407
     to 
辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
3468 or 3408
Coptic calendar487–488
Discordian calendar1937
Ethiopian calendar763–764
Hebrew calendar4531–4532
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat827–828
 - Shaka Samvat692–693
 - Kali Yuga3871–3872
Holocene calendar10771
Iranian calendar149–150
Islamic calendar154–155
Japanese calendarHōki 2
(宝亀2年)
Javanese calendar665–666
Julian calendar771
DCCLXXI
Korean calendar3104
Minguo calendar1141 before ROC
民前1141年
Nanakshahi calendar−697
Seleucid era1082/1083 AG
Thai solar calendar1313–1314
Tibetan calendar阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
897 or 516 or −256
     to 
阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
898 or 517 or −255
Coin of Charlemagne (Carolus Magnus)

Events

Europe

  • December 4 King Carloman I, youngest son of Pepin III ("the Short"), dies (of a severe nosebleed, according to one source)[1] at the Villa of Samoussy, leaving his brother Charlemagne sole ruler of the now reunified Frankish Kingdom. Gerberga, the widow of Carloman, flees with her two sons to the court of King Desiderius of the Lombards, at Pavia.
  • Charlemagne repudiates his Lombard wife Desiderata, daughter of Desiderius, after one year of marriage. He marries the 13-year-old Swabian girl Hildegard, who will bear him nine children. Desiderius, furious at Charlemagne, plans a punitive campaign against the Franks and Rome.

Britain

  • King Offa of Mercia defeats the Haestingas, and joins their little region to his sub-kingdom of Sussex.[2][3]

Births

  • Al-Hakam I, Muslim emir of Córdoba (d. 822)
  • Ubaydallah ibn al-Mahdi, Abbasid prince and Politician (d. 810)
  • Constantine VI, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 797)

Deaths

  • December 4 Carloman I, king of the Franks (b. 751)
  • Amir Kror Suri, also known as Jahan Pahlawan, is a fictional character in Pashtun history (approximate date)
  • Coirpre mac Fogartaig, king of Brega (Ireland)
  • Fujiwara no Nagate, Japanese nobleman (b. 714)
  • Remigius of Rouen, illegitimate son of Charles Martel

References

  1. "Cathwulf, Kingship, and the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis", by Joanna Story, Speculum
  2. Simon of Durham. Historia Regum. Ch. 47
  3. Simeon of Durham's. History of the Kings, p. 450
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