763

Year 763 (DCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 763 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:
763 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar763
DCCLXIII
Ab urbe condita1516
Armenian calendar212
ԹՎ ՄԺԲ
Assyrian calendar5513
Balinese saka calendar684–685
Bengali calendar170
Berber calendar1713
Buddhist calendar1307
Burmese calendar125
Byzantine calendar6271–6272
Chinese calendar壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
3459 or 3399
     to 
癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
3460 or 3400
Coptic calendar479–480
Discordian calendar1929
Ethiopian calendar755–756
Hebrew calendar4523–4524
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat819–820
 - Shaka Samvat684–685
 - Kali Yuga3863–3864
Holocene calendar10763
Iranian calendar141–142
Islamic calendar145–146
Japanese calendarTenpyō-hōji 7
(天平宝字7年)
Javanese calendar657–658
Julian calendar763
DCCLXIII
Korean calendar3096
Minguo calendar1149 before ROC
民前1149年
Nanakshahi calendar−705
Seleucid era1074/1075 AG
Thai solar calendar1305–1306
Tibetan calendar阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
889 or 508 or −264
     to 
阴水兔年
(female Water-Rabbit)
890 or 509 or −263

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • June Battle of Anchialus: Emperor Constantine V sends a Byzantine expeditionary force (800 ships and 9,600 cavalry) to Thrace, to defend the fortress city of Anchialus on the Black Sea Coast. Meanwhile, Telets, ruler (khagan) of the Bulgarian Empire, blocks the mountain passes and takes positions on the heights near Anchialus. During a desperate cavalry charge, the Bulgars are defeated and many are captured; Telets manages to escape. Constantine enters Constantinople in triumph, and kills all the prisoners.

Europe

  • August Byzantine troops invade the Papal States, in alliance with King Desiderius of the Lombards. King Pepin III ("the Short") intervenes, and begins negotiations between the Lombards and Pope Paul I. Desiderius promises to end the hostilities, but on condition that Pepin sends back Lombard hostages held by the Franks.[1]

Britain

  • Ciniod I succeeds Bridei V, as king of the Picts (modern Scotland).

Abbasid Caliphate

Abbasid Caliphate under Al-Mansur (r. 754–775) in black and Emirate of Córdoba in white
  • In 763 Al-Mansur sent his troops to conquer Al-Andalus for the Abbasid empire. But the ruler Abd al-Rahman I successfully defended his territory. Al-Mansur withdrew and thereafter focused his troops on holding the eastern part of his empire on lands that were once part of Persia.[2]
  • January 21 Battle of Bakhamra: The Abbasid army under Isa ibn Musa defeats the Alids, and puts an end to their rebellion. The power of the Abbasid Dynasty is consolidated.

Asia

  • February 17 An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Shi Chaoyi hangs himself to avoid being captured by Tang troops sent by the renegade Li Huaixian, ending the 7-year rebellion against the Tang Dynasty in China.
  • November 18 Forces of the Tibetan Empire, under Trisong Detsen, occupy the Tang capital of Chang'an (modern Xi'an) for 15 days, and install a puppet emperor.[3] Tibetans take over the horse pastures.

Central America

  • July 2 Yax Pasaj Chan Yopaat ("Rising Sun") becomes the new ruler of the Mayan city state of Copán in Honduras after the death of Kʼakʼ Yipyaj Chan Kʼawiil, who had reigned since 749. Yax Pasaj reigns until 810.

Births

Deaths

  • November 20 Domnall Midi, High King of Ireland
  • Bridei V, king of the Picts
  • Fang Guan, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 697)
  • Jianzhen, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 688)
  • Shi Chaoyi, emperor of the Yan (Anshi) state
  • Wei Jiansu, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 687)

References

  1. "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Paul I".
  2. Wise Bauer, Susan (2010). The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 369. ISBN 9780393078176.
  3. Beckwith 1987, p. 146
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