764

This article is about the year 764. For the number (and other uses), see 764 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	730s  740s  750s  – 760s –  770s  780s  790s
Years:	761 762 763 – 764 – 765 766 767

764 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

764 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	764 DCCLXIV
Ab urbe condita	1517
Armenian calendar	213 ԹՎ ՄԺԳ
Assyrian calendar	5514
Bahá'í calendar	-1080–-1079
Bengali calendar	171
Berber calendar	1714
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1308
Burmese calendar	126
Byzantine calendar	6272–6273
Chinese calendar	癸卯年十一月廿三日 (3400/3460-11-23) — to — 甲辰年十二月初四日 (3401/3461-12-4)
Coptic calendar	480–481
Ethiopian calendar	756–757
Hebrew calendar	4524–4525
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	820–821
- Shaka Samvat	686–687
- Kali Yuga	3865–3866
Holocene calendar	10764
Iranian calendar	142–143
Islamic calendar	146–147
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3097
Minguo calendar	1148 before ROC 民前1148年
Thai solar calendar	1307

Year 764 (DCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 764 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

• Empress Shōtoku succeeds Emperor Junnin on the throne of Japan.
• Near the end of the An Shi rebellion, Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.

Europe

• Mauricius Galba becomes Doge of Venice.
• According to the historian Theophanes, the Black Sea melts and ice bergs float past Constantinople.
• Offa of Mercia conquers Kent, and installs Egbert II on the Kentish throne.

Deaths

• Saint Étienne the Young (martyred)