765

This article is about the year 765. For other uses, see 765 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century 8th century 9th century
Decades:	740s 750s 760s 770s 780s
Years:	762 763 764 765 766 767 768

765 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	765 DCCLXV
Ab urbe condita	1518
Armenian calendar	214 ԹՎ ՄԺԴ
Assyrian calendar	5515
Balinese saka calendar	686–687
Bengali calendar	172
Berber calendar	1715
Buddhist calendar	1309
Burmese calendar	127
Byzantine calendar	6273–6274
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 3462 or 3255     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3463 or 3256
Coptic calendar	481–482
Discordian calendar	1931
Ethiopian calendar	757–758
Hebrew calendar	4525–4526
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	821–822
- Shaka Samvat	686–687
- Kali Yuga	3865–3866
Holocene calendar	10765
Iranian calendar	143–144
Islamic calendar	147–148
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō-hōji 9 / Tenpyō-jingo 1 (天平神護元年)
Javanese calendar	659–660
Julian calendar	765 DCCLXV
Korean calendar	3098
Minguo calendar	1147 before ROC 民前1147年
Nanakshahi calendar	−703
Seleucid era	1076/1077 AG
Thai solar calendar	1307–1308
Tibetan calendar	阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 891 or 510 or −262     — to — 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 892 or 511 or −261

Sceat of king Alhred (765–774)

Year 765 (DCCLXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 765 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

Europe

• King Pepin III ("the Short") restores the papal privileges (see Donation of Pepin) in Benevento and Tuscany territory (and partially in Spoleto).
• The Annals of Tigernach tell of a shortage of bread in Ireland.

Britain

• King Æthelwald of Northumbria is deposed at Pincanheale, possibly at a gathering of his own magnates. He is succeeded by Alhred, a distant cousin of the late king Oswulf.

Abbasid Caliphate

• The Zenata Berber tribe of Banu Ifran rebels against the Abbasid Caliphate and creates an independent state centered around Tlemcen (modern Algeria). Their tribal chief Abu Qurra rebuilds the city (formerly, the Roman colonia Pomaria).

By topic

Agriculture

• European writings make the first known mention of a three-field system in use in medieval Europe. The crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons. Under this system, the land of an estate or village is divided into three large fields and makes a given section of land productive 2 years out of 3, instead of every other year (approximate date).

Births

• Ali al-Ridha, Shī‘ah Imām and Muslim scholar (d. 818)
• Fastrada, Frankish noblewoman (d. 794)
• Han Hong, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 823)
• Pei Du, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 839)

Deaths

• Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria
• Domnall Midi, High King of Ireland
• Ealdwulf, bishop of Lindsey
• Eardwulf, king of Kent
• Flaithbertach mac Loingsig, High King of Ireland
• Fujiwara no Toyonari, Japanese politician (b. 704)
• Gao Shi, Chinese poet
• Gyeongdeok, king of Silla (Korea)
• Hemele, bishop of Lichfield
• Ja'far al-Sadiq, sixth Shī‘ah Imām and Muslim scholar (b. 702)
• Junnin, emperor of Japan (b. 733)
• Miao Jinqing, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 685)
• Pugu Huai'en, general of the Tang Dynasty
• Stephen the Younger, Byzantine theologian (or 764)
• Telets, ruler (khagan) of the Bulgarian Empire
• Tello, bishop of Chur (approximate date)
• Wang Changling, Chinese poet and official (b. 698)