748
Year 748 (DCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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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.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| 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) 3445 or 3238 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3446 or 3239 |
| 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
By place
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.
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
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