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Calendar year
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Years: |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 760 DCCLX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1513 |
| Armenian calendar | 209 ԹՎ ՄԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5510 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 681–682 |
| Bengali calendar | 166–167 |
| Berber calendar | 1710 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1304 |
| Burmese calendar | 122 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6268–6269 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3457 or 3250 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3458 or 3251 |
| Coptic calendar | 476–477 |
| Discordian calendar | 1926 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 752–753 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4520–4521 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 816–817 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 681–682 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3860–3861 |
| Holocene calendar | 10760 |
| Iranian calendar | 138–139 |
| Islamic calendar | 142–143 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpyō-hōji 4 (天平宝字４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 654–655 |
| Julian calendar | 760 DCCLX |
| Korean calendar | 3093 |
| Minguo calendar | 1152 before ROC 民前1152年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −708 |
| Seleucid era | 1071/1072 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1302–1303 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 886 or 505 or −267 — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 887 or 506 or −266 |
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Year 760 (DCCLX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 760 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") begins his Frankish expedition to Septimania and Aquitaine. He conquers the cities of Carcassone, Toulouse, Rodez and Albi. Duke Waifer of Aquitaine confiscates the Church lands and plunders Burgundy. Pepin invades Aquitanian-held Berry and the Auvergne, capturing the fortresses of Bourbon and Clermont. Waifer's Basque troops are defeated by the Franks, and deported into northern France with their childern and wives.
Britain
- Battle of Hereford: The Welsh kingdoms of Brycheiniog, Gwent and Powys defeat the Mercians under king Offa at Hereford. They free themselves from the influence of the Anglo-Saxons.
- Offa's Dyke is constructed, a 150-mile-long (240 km) earthwork which marks the current border with the Welsh kingdoms between England and Wales (approximate date).
China
- Former emperor Xuan Zong is placed under house arrest by the eunuch official Li Fuguo with the support of emperor Su Zong. Li Fuguo is appointed commander of the Imperial Guards, possessing nearly absolute power during Su Zong's reign.
Mesoamerica
- The Maya city of Dos Pilas (modern Guatemala) is abandoned after Tamarindito and Petexbatún centres revolt against their Dos Pilas overlord.
By topic
Literature
- The Book of Kells is composed. Columban monks from the monastery island of Iona (Inner Hebrides), which lies off the coast of Scotland, illustrate an ornamented book which contains transcriptions of the "four Gospels" of the New Testament. It becomes the most elaborate illuminated manuscript of its kind to have survived from the Middle Ages (approximate date).
Religion
- The Church of Santa Sophia is founded by the Lombard duke Arechis II in Benevento (approximate date).
- The Kailasa Temple is built on the orders of king Krishna I of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty (modern India).
Births
- Theodulf, bishop of Orléans (approximate date)
Deaths
- Dumnagual III, king of Alt Clut (modern Scotland)
References
- Annales Cambriae
- O'Mansky & Dunning 2005, p. 94