| 770 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 770 DCCLXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1523 |
| Armenian calendar | 219 ԹՎ ՄԺԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5520 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 691–692 |
| Bengali calendar | 177 |
| Berber calendar | 1720 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1314 |
| Burmese calendar | 132 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6278–6279 |
| Chinese calendar | 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3467 or 3260 — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3468 or 3261 |
| Coptic calendar | 486–487 |
| Discordian calendar | 1936 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 762–763 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4530–4531 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 826–827 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 691–692 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3870–3871 |
| Holocene calendar | 10770 |
| Iranian calendar | 148–149 |
| Islamic calendar | 152–154 |
| Japanese calendar | Jingo-keiun 4 / Hōki 1 (宝亀元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 664–665 |
| Julian calendar | 770 DCCLXX |
| Korean calendar | 3103 |
| Minguo calendar | 1142 before ROC 民前1142年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −698 |
| Seleucid era | 1081/1082 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1312–1313 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 896 or 515 or −257 — to — 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 897 or 516 or −256 |
Year 770 (DCCLXX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 770 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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Events
By place
Europe
- King Charlemagne signs a peace treaty with Duke Tassilo III of Bavaria, and marries the Lombard princess Desiderata (daughter of King Desiderius). He travels to the Lombard court at Pavia to conclude arrangements. Pope Stephen III opposes the marriage, and protests about a Frankish-Lombard alliance.[1]
- Hedeby, an important trading settlement, in the Danish-northern German borderland is founded (approximate date).
Britain
- King Alhred of Northumbria takes an interest in continental missionary activities, and sends Willehad to Frisia in modern-day Netherlands (approximate date).
Abbasid Caliphate
- Caliph al-Mansur orders the closing of the Canal of the Pharaohs (Egypt). The only remaining land routes to transship camel caravans' goods are from Alexandria to ports on the Red Sea, or the northern Byzantine termini of the Silk Road.
Asia
- August 28 – Empress Kōken (also Shōtoku) of Japan dies.
Births
- Ansegisus, Frankish abbot (approximate date)
- Jayavarman II, founder of the Khmer Empire (d. 835)
- Michael I, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 844)
- Michael II, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 829)
- Pepin of Italy, son of Charlemagne (or 773)
- Prokopia, empress of the Byzantine Empire (approximate date)
- Stephen IV, pope of the Catholic Church (approximate date)
- Sugawara no Kiyotomo, Japanese nobleman (d. 842)
Deaths
- August 28 – Kōken, empress of Japan (b. 718)
- Cennselach mac Brain, king of the Uí Ceinnselaig (Ireland)
- Du Fu, Chinese poet (b. 712)
- Ma'n ibn Za'ida al-Shaybani, Arab general (or 769)
- Modestus, Irish missionary (approximate date)
- Opportuna of Montreuil, Frankish abbess
- Tóim Snáma mac Flainn, king of Osraige (Ireland)
References
- ^ McKitterick, Rosamond, Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity (2008), p. 84
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