755

Year 755 (DCCLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 755 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:
755 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar755
DCCLV
Ab urbe condita1508
Armenian calendar204
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Assyrian calendar5505
Balinese saka calendar676–677
Bengali calendar162
Berber calendar1705
Buddhist calendar1299
Burmese calendar117
Byzantine calendar6263–6264
Chinese calendar甲午年 (Wood Horse)
3451 or 3391
     to 
乙未年 (Wood Goat)
3452 or 3392
Coptic calendar471–472
Discordian calendar1921
Ethiopian calendar747–748
Hebrew calendar4515–4516
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat811–812
 - Shaka Samvat676–677
 - Kali Yuga3855–3856
Holocene calendar10755
Iranian calendar133–134
Islamic calendar137–138
Japanese calendarTenpyō-shōhō 7
(天平勝宝7年)
Javanese calendar649–650
Julian calendar755
DCCLV
Korean calendar3088
Minguo calendar1157 before ROC
民前1157年
Nanakshahi calendar−713
Seleucid era1066/1067 AG
Thai solar calendar1297–1298
Tibetan calendar阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
881 or 500 or −272
     to 
阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
882 or 501 or −271
Statue of Abd al-Rahman I (731–788)

Events

Europe

  • September Abd al-Rahman I, a member of the Umayyad Dynasty, lands at Almuñécar in al-Andalus (modern Spain), where over the next years he will establish the Emirate of Córdoba.
  • Teodato Ipato is deposed and blinded, after a 13-year reign. He is succeeded by Galla Gaulo, who usurps the ducal throne of Venice.

Britain

  • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's description under this date (now dated 757), of King Sigeberht of Wessex being deposed by Cynewulf, is notably fuller than earlier entries.[1]

Asia

  • December 16 General An Lushan begins the Anshi Rebellion against Emperor Xuan Zong of the Tang Dynasty (China). His army surges down from Fanyang (near modern Beijing), and moves rapidly along the Grand Canal. Meanwhile, Xuan Zong sends Feng Changqing, governor of Fanyang, to build up defenses at the eastern capital of Luoyang.
  • Trisong Detsen becomes emperor of Tibet. During his reign he plays a pivotal role in the introduction of Buddhism, and the establishment of the Nyingma or "Ancient" school of Tibetan Buddhism.
  • Empress Kōken introduces the Tanabata festival to Japan.[2]

Central America

  • November 8 K'ahk' Ukalaw Chan Chaak is installed as the new ruler of the Mayan city state of Naranjo in Guatemala and reigns until his death in 780.
  • Alliances and trade between Mayan city-states have begun to break down. Malnutrition is on the rise. A diminishing of the food supply creates social upheaval and war (approximate date).

Births

  • Bello of Carcassonne, Frankish noble (approximate date)
  • Wala of Corbie, Frankish noble (approximate date)
  • William of Gellone, Frankish noble (approximate date)

Deaths

  • Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri, Arab noble
  • Abu Muslim Khorasani, Persian general
  • Elisedd ap Gwylog, king of Powys (Wales)
  • Sunpadh, Persian rebel leader
  • Zhang Xuan, Chinese painter (b. 713)

References

  1. Greenfield, Stanley Brian (1986). A New Critical History of Old English Literature. New York University Press. p. 60. ISBN 0-8147-3088-4.
  2. Sargent, Denny. Shinto and Its Festivals.
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