748
Year 748 (DCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 748 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.
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| Gregorian calendar | 748 DCCXLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1501 |
| Armenian calendar | 197 ԹՎ ՃՂԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5498 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 669–670 |
| Bengali calendar | 155 |
| Berber calendar | 1698 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1292 |
| Burmese calendar | 110 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6256–6257 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3444 or 3384 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3445 or 3385 |
| Coptic calendar | 464–465 |
| Discordian calendar | 1914 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 740–741 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4508–4509 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 804–805 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 669–670 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3848–3849 |
| Holocene calendar | 10748 |
| Iranian calendar | 126–127 |
| Islamic calendar | 130–131 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpyō 20 (天平２０年) |
| Javanese calendar | 642–643 |
| Julian calendar | 748 DCCXLVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3081 |
| Minguo calendar | 1164 before ROC 民前1164年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −720 |
| Seleucid era | 1059/1060 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1290–1291 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 874 or 493 or −279 — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 875 or 494 or −278 |
Events
Europe
- January 18 – Duke Odilo of Bavaria dies after a 12-year reign. Grifo, youngest son of Charles Martel, seeks to establish his own rule by seizing the duchy for himself, and abducts Odilo's infant son Tassilo III.
- In Rome, Pope Zachary closes down a slave market, where Venetian merchants had been selling Christian captives to the Muslims in North Africa.[1]
Britain
- King Æthelbert II of Kent sends a message to Boniface, archbishop of Mainz, requesting two well-trained goshawks for hunting. He had earlier made a gift of two falcons and a goshawk to King Æthelbald of Mercia (approximate date).
Arabian Empire
- February 14 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan (modern Iran), marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i takes the cities Nishapur and Rey, defeating an Umayyad army (10,000 men) at Gorgan.
- December 9 – Nasr ibn Sayyar, Arab governor of Khorasan, dies after a 10-year administration in which he has fought vigorously against dissident tribes, Turgesh neighbors, and the Abbasids. Nasr had imposed poll taxes (jizya) on non-Muslims, and introduced a system of land taxation for Muslim Arabs.
- The city of Baalbek (modern Lebanon) is sacked with great slaughter.
Asia
- An earthquake strikes the Middle East from northern Egypt to northwestern Mesopotamia, destroying many remnants of Byzantine culture (approximate date).
Births
- Al-Waqidi, Muslim historian and biographer (approximate date)
- Charlemagne, king and emperor of the Franks (or 747)
Deaths
- January 18 – Odilo, duke of Bavaria
- May 22 – Genshō, empress of Japan (b. 683)
- December 9 – Nasr ibn Sayyar, Arab general (b. 663)
- Cellan of Clonfert, Irish abbot
- Eadbert I, king of Kent (approximate date)
- Indrechtach mac Dungalaig, king of Brega (Ireland)
- Wasil ibn Ata, Muslim theologian and jurist (b. 700)
References
- McCormick, Michael (2002). "New Light on the 'Dark Ages': How the Slave Trade Fuelled the Carolingian Economy". Past & Present. 177 (177): 17–54. doi:10.1093/past/177.1.17. ISSN 0031-2746. JSTOR 3600877.
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