768
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This article is about the year 768. For the number (and other uses), see 768 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 730s 740s 750s – 760s – 770s 780s 790s |
| Years: | 765 766 767 – 768 – 769 770 771 |
| 768 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 768 DCCLXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1521 |
| Armenian calendar | 217 ԹՎ ՄԺԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5518 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1076–-1075 |
| Bengali calendar | 175 |
| Berber calendar | 1718 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1312 |
| Burmese calendar | 130 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6276–6277 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁未年十二月初七日 (3404/3464-12-7) — to —
戊申年十一月十八日(3405/3465-11-18) |
| Coptic calendar | 484–485 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 760–761 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4528–4529 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 824–825 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 690–691 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3869–3870 |
| Holocene calendar | 10768 |
| Iranian calendar | 146–147 |
| Islamic calendar | 150–151 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3101 |
| Minguo calendar | 1144 before ROC 民前1144年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1311 |
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Year 768 (DCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 768 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] Europe
- Pepin the Short (714–768), king of the Franks since 751, dies; he is succeeded by his sons Carloman (eastern Franks) and Charles, aka Charlemagne (western Franks).
- Deventer (in the present day Netherlands) is founded (approximate date).
- Aurelio succeeds Fruela I as king of Asturias.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- The date, according to the Annales Cambriae, when Wales begins to celebrate Easter on the Roman date, at the teaching of Elbodugus.
- August 7 – Pope Stephen III succeeds Pope Paul I as the 94th pope.
[edit] Births
- Han Yu, philosopher, essayist, and poet in Tang Dynasty China (d. 824)
- Xue Tao
[edit] Deaths
- Pepin the Short, King of the Franks, father of Charlemagne (b. 714)
- Fruela I of Asturias
- Yaxun B'alam IV, king of Yaxchilan (b. 709)
