744
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This article is about the year 744. For the number (and other uses), see 744 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 710s 720s 730s – 740s – 750s 760s 770s |
| Years: | 741 742 743 – 744 – 745 746 747 |
| 744 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 744 DCCXLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1497 |
| Armenian calendar | 193 ԹՎ ՃՂԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5494 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1100–-1099 |
| Bengali calendar | 151 |
| Berber calendar | 1694 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1288 |
| Burmese calendar | 106 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6252–6253 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸未年十二月十二日 (3380/3440-12-12) — to —
甲申年十一月廿三日(3381/3441-11-23) |
| Coptic calendar | 460–461 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 736–737 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4504–4505 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 800–801 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 666–667 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3845–3846 |
| Holocene calendar | 10744 |
| Iranian calendar | 122–123 |
| Islamic calendar | 126–127 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3077 |
| Minguo calendar | 1168 before ROC 民前1168年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1287 |
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Year 744 (DCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 744 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
- February – Hildeprand succeeds Liutprand as king of the Lombards.
- October – Ratchis succeeds Hildeprand as king of the Lombards.
[edit] Switzerland
- In 741 and 744, documents in the archives of St. Gallen Abbey describe the village of Kempraten as Centoprato, another document in 863 as Centiprata, inspired by the Latin name Centum Prata.
- A nunnery given by the Alamannic noblewoman Beata on Lützelau island is first mentioned in 741. In 744, the nunnery was sold to Einsiedeln Abbey.
- Ufenau island in Switzerland is first mentioned in 741 as "Hupinauia", and in 744 as "Ubinauvia".
[edit] Asia
- Chinese poet Li Po meets Du Fu for the first time.
- Umayyad caliph al-Walid II dies and is succeeded by his brother Yazid III, who dies shortly after. Rebellion of Marwan II against Yazid's designated successor Ibrahim, defeat of the loyalist forces under Sulayman ibn Hisham and accession of Marwan in December.
- Turkish subjects like Uyghur, Karluk and Basmyl who are not the members of Ashina clan stage a coup. End of Turkish Empire and Ashina clan. (except in Khazaria)
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- The Synod of Soissons meets at the instigation of Pippin, and Boniface, the Pope's missionary to pagan Germany, secures the condemnation of Frankish bishop Adalbert and Irish missionary Clement.
- March 3 – Abel becomes archbishop of Reims.
- Theophylact succeeds Stephen IV as Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.
- Saint Sturm establishes the monastery of Fulda. (or 742?)
- Salih ibn Tarif proclaims himself a prophet among the Berghouata of Morocco.
[edit] Births
- Redburga, queen of Egbert of Wessex
[edit] Deaths
- February – Liutprand, king of the Lombards
- April 16 – al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph
- August – Hildeprand, king of the Lombards
- October 3 or October 4 – Yazid III, Umayyad Caliph (b. 701)
- Stephen IV, Patriarch of Antioch (b. 720)
- He Zhizhang
- Ozmish Khan of the Göktürks
