755

This article is about the year 755. For the number (and other uses), see 755 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	720s  730s  740s  – 750s –  760s  770s  780s
Years:	752 753 754 – 755 – 756 757 758

755 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

755 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	755 DCCLV
Ab urbe condita	1508
Armenian calendar	204 ԹՎ ՄԴ
Assyrian calendar	5505
Bahá'í calendar	-1089–-1088
Bengali calendar	162
Berber calendar	1705
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1299
Burmese calendar	117
Byzantine calendar	6263–6264
Chinese calendar	甲午年閏十一月十四日 (3391/3451-intercalary 11-14) — to — 乙未年十一月廿四日 (3392/3452-11-24)
Coptic calendar	471–472
Ethiopian calendar	747–748
Hebrew calendar	4515–4516
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	811–812
- Shaka Samvat	677–678
- Kali Yuga	3856–3857
Holocene calendar	10755
Iranian calendar	133–134
Islamic calendar	137–138
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3088
Minguo calendar	1157 before ROC 民前1157年
Thai solar calendar	1298

Year 755 (DCCLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 755 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

By place

Europe

• Pepin the Short sends his armies into Italy to aid the pope against the Lombards.
• Abd-ar-Rahman I lands in Spain, where the next year he will establish a new Umayyad dynasty.
• Cynewulf deposes King Sebright of Wessex and takes the kingdom.
• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suddenly changes in style, from short descriptions to true short stories.

China

• December 16 – An Lushan begins the Anshi Rebellion against the Tang Dynasty state of China.
• Trisong Detsen becomes King of Tibet.

Deaths

• Wang Changling
• Zhang Xuan, Chinese painter (born 713)