744

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744 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 744
DCCXLIV
Ab urbe condita 1497
Armenian calendar 193
ԹՎ ՃՂԳ
Assyrian calendar 5494
Balinese saka calendar 665–666
Bengali calendar 150–151
Berber calendar 1694
Buddhist calendar 1288
Burmese calendar 106
Byzantine calendar 6252–6253
Chinese calendar 癸未年 (Water  Goat)
3441 or 3234
     to 
甲申年 (Wood  Monkey)
3442 or 3235
Coptic calendar 460–461
Discordian calendar 1910
Ethiopian calendar 736–737
Hebrew calendar 4504–4505
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 800–801
 - Shaka Samvat 665–666
 - Kali Yuga 3844–3845
Holocene calendar 10744
Iranian calendar 122–123
Islamic calendar 126–127
Japanese calendar Tenpyō 16
(天平16年)
Javanese calendar 638–639
Julian calendar 744
DCCXLIV
Korean calendar 3077
Minguo calendar 1168 before ROC
民前1168年
Nanakshahi calendar −724
Seleucid era 1055/1056 AG
Thai solar calendar 1286–1287
Tibetan calendar ཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Water-Sheep)
870 or 489 or −283
     to 
ཤིང་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Wood-Monkey)
871 or 490 or −282
The Umayyad Caliphate (661-750) Umayyad750ADloc.png
The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750)

Year 744 ( DCCXLIV ) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 744 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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Europe

Switzerland

Britain

  • Wat's Dyke, a 40 mile (64 km) earthwork in present-day Wales, is constructed. The border between Mercia and Powys is set here. The date that Wat's Dyke was constructed is very uncertain, with some estimates linking the construction of the dyke to the 5th century and others to the early 9th century (approximate date).

Arabian Empire

Dirham of caliph Ibrahim ibn al-Walid. He ruled the caliphate for just two months Dihrem of Ibrahim ibn al-Walid.jpg
Dirham of caliph Ibrahim ibn al-Walid. He ruled the caliphate for just two months

Africa

Asia

Central America

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Religion

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Wickham 1981, p. 221.
  2. Hallenbeck 1982, p. 51.
  3. Dionysius of Telmahre apud Hoyland, 661 n 193
  4. Costambeys, "Abel (fl. 744–747)"
  5. Letter by Pope Zacharias to Boniface, dated Nov. 5, 744, ed. Tangl (no.58), tr. Emerton.

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