746

Year 746 (DCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 746 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:
746 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar746
DCCXLVI
Ab urbe condita1499
Armenian calendar195
ԹՎ ՃՂԵ
Assyrian calendar5496
Balinese saka calendar667–668
Bengali calendar153
Berber calendar1696
Buddhist calendar1290
Burmese calendar108
Byzantine calendar6254–6255
Chinese calendar乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
3442 or 3382
     to 
丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
3443 or 3383
Coptic calendar462–463
Discordian calendar1912
Ethiopian calendar738–739
Hebrew calendar4506–4507
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat802–803
 - Shaka Samvat667–668
 - Kali Yuga3846–3847
Holocene calendar10746
Iranian calendar124–125
Islamic calendar128–129
Japanese calendarTenpyō 18
(天平18年)
Javanese calendar640–641
Julian calendar746
DCCXLVI
Korean calendar3079
Minguo calendar1166 before ROC
民前1166年
Nanakshahi calendar−722
Seleucid era1057/1058 AG
Thai solar calendar1288–1289
Tibetan calendar阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
872 or 491 or −281
     to 
阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
873 or 492 or −280

Events

Byzantine Empire

Europe

  • Council of Cannstatt: Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, convenes an assembly of the Alemanni nobility at Cannstatt (modern Stuttgart), and has most of the magnates, numbering in the thousands, arrested and executed for high treason. This ends the independence of the tribal duchy of Alamannia, which is thereafter governed by counts or dukes appointed by their Frankish overlords.
  • King Ratchis codifies the Lombard laws, promulgated in Latin, and advised by his council and the Lombard army (approximate date).

Britain

  • King Saelred of Essex dies after a 37-year reign. He is succeeded by Swithred, grandson of the late king Sigeheard. Like his predecessors, he is not an independent ruler, but a sub-king of Mercia.[1]

Umayyad Caliphate

  • August or September Battle of Kafartuta: Caliph Marwan II defeats and kills Al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Shaybani, leader of the Kharijites, in Upper Mesopotamia. The rebels withdraw across the River Tigris, escaping destruction.

Asia

  • The Hida-Kokubunji Temple in Japan is built to pray for peace and prosperity (approximate date).
  • Jayshikhari Chavda establishes the Chavda Dynasty in Gujarat (India).

Central America

  • August 15 K'ak' Yipiiy Chan Chaak is installed as the new ruler of the Mayan city state of Naranjo in Guatemala and reigns until his death in 748.

Religion

Births

Deaths

  • Al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Shaybani, leader of the Kharijites
  • Floribert, bishop of Liège
  • Genbō, Japanese scholar-monk
  • Maelimarchair, bishop of Aughrim (Ireland)
  • Saelred, king of Essex

References

  1. Barbara Yorke, 'East Saxons, kings of the (act. late 6th cent.–c.820)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 9 Feb 2008
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