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| Gregorian calendar | 761 DCCLXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1514 |
| Armenian calendar | 210 ԹՎ ՄԺ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5511 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 682–683 |
| Bengali calendar | 168 |
| Berber calendar | 1711 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1305 |
| Burmese calendar | 123 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6269–6270 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3458 or 3251 — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3459 or 3252 |
| Coptic calendar | 477–478 |
| Discordian calendar | 1927 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 753–754 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4521–4522 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 817–818 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 682–683 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3861–3862 |
| Holocene calendar | 10761 |
| Iranian calendar | 139–140 |
| Islamic calendar | 143–144 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpyō-hōji 5 (天平宝字５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 655–656 |
| Julian calendar | 761 DCCLXI |
| Korean calendar | 3094 |
| Minguo calendar | 1151 before ROC 民前1151年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −707 |
| Seleucid era | 1072/1073 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1303–1304 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 887 or 506 or −266 — to — 阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 888 or 507 or −265 |
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.
Events
By place
Britain
- Battle of Eildon: King Æthelwald of Northumbria faces a rebellion under a rival claimant to the throne named Oswine. The latter is killed after a three day battle against the forces of Æthelwald in the Eildon Hills.[1]
- Bridei V succeeds his brother Óengus I as king of the Picts (modern Scotland).[2]
Europe
- The city of Oviedo (Northern Spain) is founded by the monks Nolan and John (approximate date).
- Construction is completed on the 108-room Castello di Lunghezza outside of Rome, Italy.
Arabian Empire
- An Abbasid Caliphate army reconquers the city of Kairouan (modern-day Tunisia) from 'Abd al-Rahmān ibn Rustam of the Rustamid Dynasty. The latter is forced west where he creates an autonomous state around Tihert (Tiaret).[3]
- Khurshid II, the last ruler (spāhbed) of Tabaristan, poisons himself when he learns that his family has been captured by the Abbasids.[4]
Asia
- The Japanese priest Dōkyō "cures" empress Kōken by using prayers and potions. He may have become her lover and certainly becomes her court favorite, arousing the jealousy of emperor Junnin.
- A great Chinese famine in the Huai-Yangtze area late in the year drives many people to cannibalism (approximate date).
Births
- Shun Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 806)
Deaths
- Donngal mac Laidcnén, king of the Uí Ceinnselaig (Ireland)
- December 23 – Gaubald, bishop of Regensburg
- Ibn Ishaq, Arab historian and hagiographer (or 767)
- Khurshid II, ruler (spāhbed) of Tabaristan (b. 734)
- Óengus I, king of the Picts (approximate date)
- Shi Siming, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 703)
References
- ^ Kirby, p. 151, states that Oswine's origins are unknown. Marsden, pp. 232–233, suggests he was a son of Eadberht. The description of Oswine as an ætheling comes from John of Worcester's chronicle.
- ^ Forsyth, Katherine (2000). "Evidence of a lost Pictish source in the Historia Regum Anglorum". In Taylor, Simon (ed.). Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland, 500–1297: essays in honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday. Dublin: Four Courts Press. ISBN 1-85182-516-9.
- ^ Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique: De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p. 25.
- ^ Rekaya, M. (1986). "Khurshīd". The Encyclopedia of Islam. Vol. V (New ed.). Leiden; New York: Brill. pp. 68–70. ISBN 90-04-07819-3. Retrieved January 31, 2013.