761

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761 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 761
DCCLXI
Ab urbe condita 1514
Armenian calendar 210
ԹՎ ՄԺ
Assyrian calendar 5511
Balinese saka calendar 682–683
Bengali calendar 167–168
Berber calendar 1711
Buddhist calendar 1305
Burmese calendar 123
Byzantine calendar 6269–6270
Chinese calendar 庚子年 (Metal  Rat)
3458 or 3251
     to 
辛丑年 (Metal  Ox)
3459 or 3252
Coptic calendar 477–478
Discordian calendar 1927
Ethiopian calendar 753–754
Hebrew calendar 4521–4522
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 817–818
 - Shaka Samvat 682–683
 - Kali Yuga 3861–3862
Holocene calendar 10761
Iranian calendar 139–140
Islamic calendar 143–144
Japanese calendar Tenpyō-hōji 5
(天平宝字5年)
Javanese calendar 655–656
Julian calendar 761
DCCLXI
Korean calendar 3094
Minguo calendar 1151 before ROC
民前1151年
Nanakshahi calendar −707
Seleucid era 1072/1073 AG
Thai solar calendar 1303–1304
Tibetan calendar 阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
887 or 506 or −266
     to 
阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
888 or 507 or −265
Silver dirham of Khurshid II (734-761) Ispahbod Xurshid's coin-1.jpg
Silver dirham of Khurshid II (734–761)

Year 761 ( DCCLXI ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 761 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.

Contents

Events

By place

Britain

Europe

  • The city of Oviedo (Northern Spain) is founded by the monks Nolan and John (approximate date).
  • Construction is completed on the 108-room Castello di Lunghezza outside of Rome, Italy.

Abbasid Caliphate

Asia

Births 12/12/2011

Deaths

References

  1. Kirby, p. 151, states that Oswine's origins are unknown. Marsden, pp. 232233, suggests he was a son of Eadberht. The description of Oswine as an ætheling comes from John of Worcester's chronicle.
  2. Forsyth, Katherine (2000). "Evidence of a lost Pictish source in the Historia Regum Anglorum". In Taylor, Simon (ed.). Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland, 500–1297: essays in honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday. Dublin: Four Courts Press. ISBN   1-85182-516-9.
  3. Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique: De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p. 25.
  4. Rekaya, M. (1986). "Khurshīd". The Encyclopedia of Islam. Vol. V (New ed.). Leiden; New York: Brill. pp. 68–70. ISBN   90-04-07819-3 . Retrieved January 31, 2013.
  5. Lynch, Michael, ed. (February 24, 2011). The Oxford companion to Scottish history. Oxford University Press. p. 448. ISBN   9780199693054.