760

Year 760 (DCCLX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 760 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:
760 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar760
DCCLX
Ab urbe condita1513
Armenian calendar209
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Assyrian calendar5510
Balinese saka calendar681–682
Bengali calendar167
Berber calendar1710
Buddhist calendar1304
Burmese calendar122
Byzantine calendar6268–6269
Chinese calendar己亥年 (Earth Pig)
3456 or 3396
     to 
庚子年 (Metal Rat)
3457 or 3397
Coptic calendar476–477
Discordian calendar1926
Ethiopian calendar752–753
Hebrew calendar4520–4521
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat816–817
 - Shaka Samvat681–682
 - Kali Yuga3860–3861
Holocene calendar10760
Iranian calendar138–139
Islamic calendar142–143
Japanese calendarTenpyō-hōji 4
(天平宝字4年)
Javanese calendar654–655
Julian calendar760
DCCLX
Korean calendar3093
Minguo calendar1152 before ROC
民前1152年
Nanakshahi calendar−708
Seleucid era1071/1072 AG
Thai solar calendar1302–1303
Tibetan calendar阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
886 or 505 or −267
     to 
阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
887 or 506 or −266
Pepin's expedition to Septimania and Aquitaine

Events

Europe

  • Frankish King Pepin III ("the Short") begins his expedition to Septimania and Aquitaine. He conquers the cities of Carcassonne, Toulouse, Rodez and Albi. Duke Waifer of Aquitaine confiscates the Church lands, and plunders Burgundy. Pepin invades Aquitanian-held Berry and the Auvergne, capturing the fortresses of Bourbon and Clermont. Waifer's Basque troops are defeated by the Franks, and deported into northern France with their children and wives.

Britain

  • Battle of Hereford: The Welsh kingdoms of Brycheiniog, Gwent and Powys defeat the Mercians under King Offa at Hereford. They free themselves from the influence of the Anglo-Saxons.[1]
  • Offa's Dyke is constructed around this time, according to the traditional history of this defensive earthwork. This 150-mile-long (240 km) earthwork marks the current border with the Welsh kingdoms, between England and Wales (approximate date). However, modern analysis of Offa's Dyke suggests that it was built in the 5th century, well before the reign of King Offa.

China

  • Former emperor Xuanzong is placed under house arrest by the eunuch official Li Fuguo, with the support of Xuanzong's son, Suzong. Li Fuguo is appointed commander of the Imperial Guards, possessing nearly absolute power during Suzong's reign.
  • The Kingdom of Nanzhao (Nanchao) in modern-day southern China expands into the Irrawaddy River region, first into Burma, then down into northern Laos and Thailand (approximate date).
  • Lu Yu begins writing The Classic of Tea.

Mesoamerica

  • The Maya city of Dos Pilas (modern Guatemala) is abandoned, after the Tamarindito and Petexbatún centres revolt against their Dos Pilas overlord.[2]

Religion

  • The Church of Santa Sophia is founded by the Lombard duke Arechis II in Benevento (approximate date).
  • The Kailasa Temple is built on the orders of King Krishna I, of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty (modern India) (approximate date).
  • Bregowine is appointed archbishop of Canterbury in England.

Births

  • Angilbert, Frankish diplomat and abbot (approximate date)
  • Fujiwara no Otomuro, Japanese empress consort (d. 790)
  • Jonas, bishop of Orléans (approximate date)
  • Sibawayh, Persian linguist and grammarian (approximate date)
  • Theodulf, bishop of Orléans (approximate date)
  • Theophanes the Confessor, Byzantine monk (or 758)
  • Thomas the Slav, Byzantine general (approximate date)
  • Wei Guanzhi, Chinese chancellor (d. 821)
  • Zhang Hongjing, Chinese chancellor (d. 824)

Deaths

References

  1. Annales Cambriae.
  2. O'Mansky & Dunning 2005, p. 94.
  3. Bellenger, Dominic Aidan; Fletcher, Stella (February 17, 2005). The Mitre and the Crown: A History of the Archbishops of Canterbury. History Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-7524-9495-1.
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