745
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Thai solar calendar | 1287–1288 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 871 or 490 or −282 — to — 阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 872 or 491 or −281 |
Year 745 (DCCXLV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 745 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.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Asia Minor kills 1/3 of the population, and subsequently sweeps through the Peloponnese (Balkan Peninsula) (approximate date).
Europe
- Hunald I, duke of Aquitaine, retires to a monastery, probably on Île de Ré.[1] He is succeeded by his son Waifar, who struggles during his rule for independence against the Frankish Kingdom.
- Avartribes from the east (approximate date).
Asia
- spell of his son's wife Yang Guifei (one of the Four Beauties of Ancient China), a Taoist priestess. He is ignoring the economy and the Tang dynastyis declining.
- The newly founded (approximate date).
By topic
Religion
Births
- Idris I, emir and founder of the Idrisid dynasty (d. 791)
- caliph (or 744)
- Twelver Shī‘ah imām (d. 799)
- Wei Gao, general of the Tang dynasty (d. 805)
- Bremen(approximate date)
- Yaoshan Weiyan, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 827)
- Zhang Jianfeng, statesman of the Tang dynasty (d. 800)
Deaths
- Uí Maine (Ireland)
- Daniel, bishop of Winchester
- Herlindis of Maaseik, Frankish abbess (or 753)
- Ingwald, bishop of London
- Kadobe, Japanese prince
- Kulun Beg, ruler (khagan) of the Turkish Empire
- Thrasimund II, duke of Spoleto
- bishop of York
- Yusuf ibn Umar al-Thaqafi, Muslim governor
References
- ^ Pierre Riche, The Carolingians: A Family who forged Europe, pp. 51–52.
- ^ Grapard, Allan G. (1992). The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History, p. 67; excerpt, "We have no information concerning Genbō's exile; the Shoku-Nihongi states simply that Genbō behaved in a manner that did not befit his ecclesiastic position and that he died in 746 as he was trying to escape."; Matsunaga, p. 125; excerpt, "...the degree of Genbō's corruption remains equivocal."