760
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Thai solar calendar | 1302–1303 |
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 |
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.
Events
By place
Europe
- 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 (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]
By topic
Religion
- The Church of Santa Sophia is founded by the Lombard duke Arechis II in Benevento (approximate date).
- 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)
- 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
- October 26 – Cuthbert, archbishop of Canterbury[3]
- Dumnagual III, king of Alt Clut (Scotland)
- Gangulphus, Burgundian courtier
- Kōmyō, empress of Japan (b. 701)
- Liutprand, duke of Benevento (approximate date)
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- Wu Daozi, Chinese painter (approximate date)
References
- ^ Annales Cambriae.
- ^ O'Mansky & Dunning 2005, p. 94.
- ISBN 978-0-7524-9495-1.