742
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This article is about the year 742. For the number (and other uses), see 742 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 710s 720s 730s – 740s – 750s 760s 770s |
| Years: | 739 740 741 – 742 – 743 744 745 |
| 742 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 742 DCCXLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1495 |
| Armenian calendar | 191 ԹՎ ՃՂԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5492 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1102–-1101 |
| Bengali calendar | 149 |
| Berber calendar | 1692 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1286 |
| Burmese calendar | 104 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6250–6251 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛巳年十一月二十日 (3378/3438-11-20) — to —
壬午年十一月三十日(3379/3439-11-30) |
| Coptic calendar | 458–459 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 734–735 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4502–4503 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 798–799 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 664–665 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3843–3844 |
| Holocene calendar | 10742 |
| Iranian calendar | 120–121 |
| Islamic calendar | 124–125 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3075 |
| Minguo calendar | 1170 before ROC 民前1170年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1285 |
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Year 742 (DCCXLII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 742 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] Asia
- Chinese poet Li Po is presented before the emperor and given a position in the Imperial court (approximate date).
- Artabasdus is Byzantine Emperor until the capital is stormed by Constantine V, who regains control and resumes the suppression of image-worship.
- Emperor Xuanzong of Tang begins to favor Taoism over Buddhism, adopting the new reign title Tianbao ('Heavenly Treasures') to indicate his divine mandate.
- For the municipal census of the Chinese capital city Chang'an and its metropolitan area of Jingzhou Fu (including small towns in the vicinity), the New Book of Tang records that in this year there are 362,921 registered families with 1,960,188 persons.
- In China, the total number of enlisted troops in the Tang armies has risen to about half a million due to Emperor Xuanzong's earlier reforms.
- China's population reaches approximately 50 million.
[edit] Africa
- The Arabs suppress a revolt of the Kharajites and the Berbers.
[edit] Europe
- Liutprand, King of the Lombards, absorbs the independent duchies of Spoleto and Benevento into his kingdom.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- Saint Sturm establishes the abbey of Fulda (or 744?).
- After a forty-year vacancy, Stephen becomes Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch at the suggestion of Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik.
- Chrodegang, chancellor of Charles Martel, is appointed bishop of Metz and embarks on a reorganisation of the Frankish church.
- The Holy Face of Lucca is transferred to Lucca from Luni (traditional date).
[edit] Births
- Charlemagne, king and emperor of the Franks (disputed date)
- Emperor Dezong of Tang
[edit] Deaths
- Niu Xianke, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
- Itzamnaaj B'alam II, king of Yaxchilan
