754

This article is about the year 754. For the number, see 754 (number). For the computer standard, see IEEE 754. For the CPU socket, see Socket 754.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	720s  730s  740s  – 750s –  760s  770s  780s
Years:	751 752 753 – 754 – 755 756 757

754 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

754 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	754 DCCLIV
Ab urbe condita	1507
Armenian calendar	203 ԹՎ ՄԳ
Assyrian calendar	5504
Bengali calendar	161
Berber calendar	1704
Buddhist calendar	1298
Burmese calendar	116
Byzantine calendar	6262–6263
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3450 or 3390     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3451 or 3391
Coptic calendar	470–471
Discordian calendar	1920
Ethiopian calendar	746–747
Hebrew calendar	4514–4515
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	810–811
- Shaka Samvat	676–677
- Kali Yuga	3855–3856
Holocene calendar	10754
Iranian calendar	132–133
Islamic calendar	136–137
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō-shōhō 6 (天平勝宝６年)
Julian calendar	754 DCCLIV
Korean calendar	3087
Minguo calendar	1158 before ROC 民前1158年
Seleucid era	1065/1066 AG
Thai solar calendar	1296–1297

The Iconoclasts, by Domenico Morelli

Year 754 (DCCLIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 754 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

• January 6 – Pope Stephen II re-consecrated Pepin III (the Short) as king of the Franks at the Basilica of Saint-Denis outside Paris, bestowing upon him the additional title of Patricius of the Romans and becomes the first recorded crowning of a civil ruler by a pope. Pepin assumes the role of ordained protector of the Catholic Church.
• July – Stephen II anoints Pepin's sons, Charles (later known as Charlemagne) and Carloman, consecrating them as patricians. At Quierzy he proclaims the Carolingian Dynasty holy and appeals for help against the Lombards. Finally, the Frankish nobles give their consent to a campaign in Lombardy.
• Summer – The Franks under Pepin III invade Italy and defeat the Lombards under king Aistulf in the Susa Valley (Piedmont). He enforces the terms including cession of the Exarchate of Ravenna to Rome.
• The oldest document mentioning the city of Ferrara (Northern Italy) is from this year (approximate date).

Arabian Empire

• June 10 – Caliph Abul Abbas al-Saffah dies of smallpox after a 4-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Abu Ja'far Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Mansur (Al-Mansur) as ruler of the Abbasid Caliphate.
• November – Abdallah ibn Ali, governor of Syria, launches a claim for the caliphate but is defeated by Muslim forces under Abu Muslim Khorasani at Nisibis (modern Turkey).

Asia

• Jianzhen, Chinese Buddhist monk, arrives in Nara where he is welcomed by former emperor Shōmu and empress Kōmyō. During his visit Jianzhen introduces sugar to the Japanese court, using it to mask the flavors of foul-tasting herbal tea.
• A Tang census shows that 75% of the Chinese live north of the Chang Jiang (Yangtze) River. The capital of Chang'an has a population of 2 million and more than 25 other cities have well over 500,000 citizens (approximate date).

By topic

Religion

• February – Council of Hieria: Emperor Constantine V summons a Christian council in the palace of Hieria in Constantinople. The council, under the presidency of bishop Theodosius of Ephesus, support the policy of the Iconoclasm and condemning the use of religious images (icons) in the Byzantine Empire. Constantine increases the persecution of the monasteries, hundreds of monks and nuns are mutilated or put to death.
• June 5 – Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary, is killed by a band of pagans at Dokkum in Frisia while reading the Scriptures to Christian converts. He is later buried in the Abbey of Fulda entrusted by his Bavarian disciple Sturm.

Deaths

• June 10 – Abul Abbas al-Saffah, Muslim caliph
• Ansemund, Visigothic count
• June 5 – Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary
• Burchard, bishop of Würzburg (approximate date)
• Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia
• Childeric III, king of the Franks (approximate date)
• Cui Hao, Chinese poet
• June 5 – Eoban, bishop of Utrecht
• Hiltrud, duchess of Bavaria
• Li Linfu, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
• Rhodri Molwynog, king of Gwynedd (Wales)