749
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This article is about the year 749. For the number see 749 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 710s 720s 730s – 740s – 750s 760s 770s |
| Years: | 746 747 748 – 749 – 750 751 752 |
| 749 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 749 DCCXLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1502 |
| Armenian calendar | 198 ԹՎ ՃՂԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5499 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1095–-1094 |
| Bengali calendar | 156 |
| Berber calendar | 1699 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1293 |
| Burmese calendar | 111 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6257–6258 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊子年十二月初八日 (3385/3445-12-8) — to —
己丑年十一月十八日(3386/3446-11-18) |
| Coptic calendar | 465–466 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 741–742 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4509–4510 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 805–806 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 671–672 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3850–3851 |
| Holocene calendar | 10749 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | -251–-250 |
| Iranian calendar | 127–128 |
| Islamic calendar | 131–132 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | 749 DCCXLIX |
| Korean calendar | 3082 |
| Minguo calendar | 1163 before ROC 民前1163年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1292 |
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Year 749 (DCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 749 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[edit]
By place[edit]
Europe[edit]
Asia[edit]
- Abbasid forces under Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i defeat a large Ummayad army at Isfahan and move into Iraq, taking Kufa in September
- Empress Kōken succeeds Emperor Shōmu on the throne of Japan.
- Golan earthquake of 749
Births[edit]
- Muhammad al-Shaybani, Islamic jurist
Deaths[edit]
- August 27 – Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i, Abbasid general
- December 4 – Saint John of Damascus (or Damascene), theologian
