740
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This article is about the year 740. For the number (and other uses), see 740 (number). For the car, see Volvo 700 Series#Volvo 740.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 710s 720s 730s – 740s – 750s 760s 770s |
| Years: | 737 738 739 – 740 – 741 742 743 |
| 740 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 740 DCCXL |
| Ab urbe condita | 1493 |
| Armenian calendar | 189 ԹՎ ՃՁԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5490 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1104–-1103 |
| Bengali calendar | 147 |
| Berber calendar | 1690 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1284 |
| Burmese calendar | 102 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6248–6249 |
| Chinese calendar | 己卯年十一月廿八日 (3376/3436-11-28) — to —
庚辰年十二月初九日(3377/3437-12-9) |
| Coptic calendar | 456–457 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 732–733 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4500–4501 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 796–797 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 662–663 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3841–3842 |
| Holocene calendar | 10740 |
| Iranian calendar | 118–119 |
| Islamic calendar | 122–123 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3073 |
| Minguo calendar | 1172 before ROC 民前1172年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1283 |
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Year 740 (DCCXL) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 740 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.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- October 26 – An earthquake strikes Constantinople and the surrounding countryside, causing destruction to the city's land walls and buildings, and many deaths.
- The reign of King Sevar, and thus of the House of Dulo, ends in Bulgaria.
- Pippin III marries Bertrada of Laon.
[edit] Asia
- September – The Daysan River floods Edessa.
- Battle of Akroinon in Anatolia, a significant Byzantine victory over the Umayyads, halts the impetus of Arab attacks into Anatolia.
- Much to the delight of the citizens of Chang'an City, the Chinese Tang Dynasty government orders fruit trees to be planted along every main avenue of the city, which enriches not only the diets of the people but also the surroundings.
[edit] Africa
- After two unsuccessful attempts to crush the quickly spreading revolt of Tanger, the Umayyad suffer a humiliating defeat at the "battle of the Nobles" near the Chelif river.[1]
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- The Khazars, a nation of the Black Sea steppe, though not ethnically Jewish, voluntarily convert to Judaism.
- St. Cuthbert becomes archbishop of Canterbury.
[edit] Births
- Layman Pang, Chinese Buddhist (d. 808)
[edit] Deaths
- Saint Æthelwald, Bishop of Lindisfarne
- Zhang Jiuling, poet, scholar, and ex-Chancellor of Tang China (b. 673)
- Zayd ibn Ali, Fifth Zaidi Shia Imam, (in a Shi'ite revolt in Kufa)
- Wu Daozi, Chinese painter (born 680)
- Meng Haoran, Chinese poet (born 689)
- Hilderic, duke of Spoleto
[edit] References
- ^ Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.25.
