749
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 710s 720s 730s – 740s – 750s 760s 770s |
| Years: | 746 747 748 – 749 – 750 751 752 |
| 749 by topic | |
| Politics | |
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| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 749 DCCXLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1502 |
| Armenian calendar | 198 ԹՎ ՃՂԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5499 |
| Bengali calendar | 156 |
| Berber calendar | 1699 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1293 |
| Burmese calendar | 111 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6257–6258 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3445 or 3385 — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3446 or 3386 |
| Coptic calendar | 465–466 |
| Discordian calendar | 1915 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 741–742 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4509–4510 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 805–806 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 671–672 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3850–3851 |
| Holocene calendar | 10749 |
| Iranian calendar | 127–128 |
| Islamic calendar | 131–132 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpyō 21 / Tenpyō-kanpō 1 (天平感宝元年) |
| Julian calendar | 749 DCCXLIX |
| Korean calendar | 3082 |
| Minguo calendar | 1163 before ROC 民前1163年 |
| Seleucid era | 1060/1061 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1291–1292 |
Year 749 (DCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 749 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 Ratchis of the Lombards besieges Perugia; convinced to lift the siege by pope Zachary, he is forced to retire with his family to the monastery at Monte Cassino.
- June – Aistulf succeeds his brother, Ratchis, as king of the Lombards and marries Gisaltruda, sister of Anselm, duke of Friuli.
Britain
- King Ælfwald of East Anglia dies after a 36-year reign. He is succeeded by Beonna, Æthelberht I and possibly Hun. Relationship unknown. Beonna emerges as the dominant monarch.
- King Æthelbald of Mercia calls the Synod of Gumley, at the instigation of Boniface, bishop of Mainz, and issues a charter that releases the Catholic Church from all public burdens.
Arabian Empire
- Abbasid Revolution: Muslim forces under Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i defeat a large Umayyad army (50,000 men) at Isfahan and invade Iraq, taking the city of Kufa.
- Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad prince, is executed by crucifixion on orders of the first Abbasid caliph, Abdullah ibn Muhammad, at Al-Hirah (or 750).
- October 28 – Abdullah ibn Muhammad is proclaimed caliph at Kufa by his supporters and adopts the title of al-Saffah (the "Slaughterer of Blood").[1]
Japan
- August 19 – Emperor Shōmu abdicates the throne after a 25-year reign that has been dominated by his wife (and aunt), Kōmyō, a commoner he married at age 16. He is succeeded by his daughter Kōken, Shōmu becomes the first retired emperor to become a Buddhist priest.[2]
By topic
Catastrophe
- January 18 – Galilee earthquake: Palestine and eastern Transjordan are devastated by a earthquake. The cities of Tiberias, Beit She'an, Hippos and Pella are largely destroyed.
Births
- Muhammad al-Shaybani, Muslim jurist (approximate date)
Deaths
- Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad prince (or 750)
- Ælfwald, king of East Anglia
- Ailello hui Daimine, king of Uí Maine (Ireland)
- Gyōki, Japanese Buddhist priest (b. 668)
- December 4 – John of Damascus, Syrian monk and priest
- August 27 – Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i, Muslim general
References
- ↑ David Nicolle (2009). The Great Islamic Conquests 632–750 AD, p. 78. ISBN 978-1-84603-273-8
- ↑ Varley, H. Paul (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04940-4
