750
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This article is about the year 750. For the number (and other uses), see 750 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 720s 730s 740s – 750s – 760s 770s 780s |
| Years: | 747 748 749 – 750 – 751 752 753 |
| 750 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 750 DCCL |
| Ab urbe condita | 1503 |
| Armenian calendar | 199 ԹՎ ՃՂԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5500 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1094–-1093 |
| Bengali calendar | 157 |
| Berber calendar | 1700 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1294 |
| Burmese calendar | 112 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6258–6259 |
| Chinese calendar | 己丑年十一月十九日 (3386/3446-11-19) — to —
庚寅年十一月廿八日(3387/3447-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 466–467 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 742–743 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4510–4511 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 806–807 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 672–673 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3851–3852 |
| Holocene calendar | 10750 |
| Iranian calendar | 128–129 |
| Islamic calendar | 132–133 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3083 |
| Minguo calendar | 1162 before ROC 民前1162年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1293 |
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Year 750 (DCCL) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 750 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.
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[edit] By place
[edit] Asia
- Gopala is proclaimed as the first ruler of the Pala Empire.
- After the defeat of his army in the Battle of the Zab the last Umayyad Caliph, Marwan II, is overthrown and killed. Al-Saffah is proclaimed the first Abbasid Caliph. The capital of the Caliphate will later moved from Damascus to Baghdad, within the territory of the former Persian Empire; this transfer will prove to be a momentous event for Baghdad, which develops into a centre of international trade and culture.
[edit] Africa
- The Ghana Empire begins.
[edit] America
- Teotihuacan in Mexico is destroyed.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Art
- The Western Paradise of Amitabha Buddha, detail of a wall painting in Cave 217, Dunhuang, Gansu, is made. Tang dynasty (approximate date).
[edit] Births
- Ragnvald Sigurdsson Great Grandfather to Harald Hårfagre
[edit] Deaths
- Marwan II, caliph (b. 688)
- Al-Abbas ibn al-Walid, Umayyad prince and general
