761
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This article is about the year 761. For the number (and other uses), see 761 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 730s 740s 750s – 760s – 770s 780s 790s |
| Years: | 758 759 760 – 761 – 762 763 764 |
| 761 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 761 DCCLXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1514 |
| Armenian calendar | 210 ԹՎ ՄԺ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5511 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1083–-1082 |
| Bengali calendar | 168 |
| Berber calendar | 1711 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1305 |
| Burmese calendar | 123 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6269–6270 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚子年十一月廿一日 (3397/3457-11-21) — to —
辛丑年十二月初一日(3398/3458-12-1) |
| Coptic calendar | 477–478 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 753–754 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4521–4522 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 817–818 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 683–684 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3862–3863 |
| Holocene calendar | 10761 |
| Iranian calendar | 139–140 |
| Islamic calendar | 143–144 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3094 |
| Minguo calendar | 1151 before ROC 民前1151年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1304 |
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Year 761 (DCCLXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 761 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
- Telets succeeds Vinekh as king of Bulgaria, ending the reign of the House of Uki and beginning the reign of the House of Ugain.
- Bridei V succeeds Onuist as king of the Picts.
- The city of Oviedo is founded by Máximo and Fromestano.
- Construction is completed on the 108-room Castello di Lunghezza outside of Rome, Italy.
[edit] Africa
- An Abbasid army reconquers Kairouan from 'Abd al-Rahman Ibn Rustam. The latter is forced west where he creates an autonomous state around Tihert (Tiaret).[1]
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Kana Subigi Vinekh, Bulgarian monarch
- Wang Wei, Chinese poet, musician, painter, and chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 701)
[edit] References
- ^ Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.25.
