AD 747

"747 (year)" redirects here. For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 747 BC.

747 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	747 DCCXLVII
Ab urbe condita	1500
Armenian calendar	196 ԹՎ ՃՂԶ
Assyrian calendar	5497
Balinese saka calendar	668–669
Bengali calendar	153–154
Berber calendar	1697
Buddhist calendar	1291
Burmese calendar	109
Byzantine calendar	6255–6256
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire  Dog) 3444 or 3237     — to — 丁亥年 (Fire  Pig) 3445 or 3238
Coptic calendar	463–464
Discordian calendar	1913
Ethiopian calendar	739–740
Hebrew calendar	4507–4508
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	803–804
- Shaka Samvat	668–669
- Kali Yuga	3847–3848
Holocene calendar	10747
Iranian calendar	125–126
Islamic calendar	129–130
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō 19 (天平１９年)
Javanese calendar	641–642
Julian calendar	747 DCCXLVII
Korean calendar	3080
Minguo calendar	1165 before ROC 民前1165年
Nanakshahi calendar	−721
Seleucid era	1058/1059 AG
Thai solar calendar	1289–1290
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dog) 873 or 492 or −280     — to — མེ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Boar) 874 or 493 or −279

Year 747 ( DCCXLVII ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 747 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.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor Constantine V destroys the Arab fleet off Cyprus, with the aid of ships from the Italian city-states, breaking the naval power of the Umayyad Caliphate. ^[1]

Europe

• August 15 – Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, renounces his position as majordomo , and withdraws from public life. He retires to a monastery near Rome, being tonsured by Pope Zachary, and leaves his brother Pepin the Short as sole ruler ( de facto ) of the Frankish Kingdom.
• Bubonic plague breaks out in Sicily, Calabria (Southern Italy), and Monemvasia (modern Greece).

Islamic Empire

• June 9 – Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani, Persian military leader from Khorasan, begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard. Close to 10,000 Muslims, primarily Khorasani Persians are under his command, when the hostilities officially begin in Merv (modern Turkmenistan).

Asia

• Chinese forces under Gao Xianzhi (a Korean in Tang employ) defeat the Arabs and Tibetans, by rapid military expeditions over the Pamir Mountains and Hindu Kush. About 72 local Indian and Sogdian kingdoms become Tang vassals. Over the next two years he establishes complete control in East Asia. ^[2]
• Emperor Xuan Zong abolishes the death penalty in China, during the Tang dynasty (approximate date).
• Empress Kōmyō founds the Shin-Yakushi-ji Buddhist temple in Nara (Japan).

Births

• Benedict of Aniane, Frankish monk (approximate date)
• Charlemagne, king and emperor of the Franks (or 748)

Deaths

• May 16 – Petronax, Italian monk and abbot (b. 675)
• August 13 – Wigbert, Anglo-Saxon monk
• October 26 – Witta of Büraburg, Anglo-Saxon missionary

Date Unknown

• Cú Chuimne, Irish monk
• Dunn, bishop of Rochester
• Fiachna ua Maicniadh, Irish abbot
• Li Shizhi, chancellor and poet of the Tang dynasty
• Sulayman ibn Hisham, Arab general

References

1. Pryor, John H.; Jeffreys, Elizabeth M. (2006), The Age of the ΔΡΟΜΩΝ: The Byzantine Navy ca. 500–1204, Brill Academic Publishers, p. 33, ISBN   978-90-04-15197-0
2. New Book of Tang, vol. 135