758

This article is about the year 758. For the number (and other uses), see 758 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	720s  730s  740s  – 750s –  760s  770s  780s
Years:	755 756 757 – 758 – 759 760 761

758 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

758 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	758 DCCLVIII
Ab urbe condita	1511
Armenian calendar	207 ԹՎ ՄԷ
Assyrian calendar	5508
Bahá'í calendar	-1086–-1085
Bengali calendar	165
Berber calendar	1708
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1302
Burmese calendar	120
Byzantine calendar	6266–6267
Chinese calendar	丁酉年十一月十七日 (3394/3454-11-17) — to — 戊戌年十一月廿六日 (3395/3455-11-26)
Coptic calendar	474–475
Ethiopian calendar	750–751
Hebrew calendar	4518–4519
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	814–815
- Shaka Samvat	680–681
- Kali Yuga	3859–3860
Holocene calendar	10758
Iranian calendar	136–137
Islamic calendar	140–141
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3091
Minguo calendar	1154 before ROC 民前1154年
Thai solar calendar	1301

Year 758 (DCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 758 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

Asia

• Emperor Junnin succeeds Empress Kōken on the throne of Japan.
• During the turmoil of the An Shi Rebellion, the Chinese seaport Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian raiders. The port is shut down for the next five decades while foreign vessels dock at Hanoi instead, yet Guangzhou thrives again once it is reopened to foreign trade in the early 9th century.
• June 11 – Abbasid Arabs and Uyghur Turks arrive simultaneously at Chang'an, the Tang Chinese capital, in order to offer tribute to the imperial court. The Arabs and Turks bicker and fight over diplomatic prominence at the gate, in order to present tribute before the other. A settlement was reached when both were allowed to enter at the same time, but through two different gates to the palace.

Europe

• King Desiderius of the Lombards captures Spoleto and Benevento.
• Swithred is succeeded by Sigeric as King of Essex.

Africa

• The moderate Ibadites under the Persian 'Abd al-Rahman Iban Rustam conquer Kairouan and massacre the Sofrites Kharijites.

Births

• Theodore the Studite, monk (approximate date)

Deaths

• Chen Xilie, chancellor of Tang China
• Swithred, King of Essex