760

Year 760 (DCCLX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will
Millennium: 1st millennium
display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination
760 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, Centuries: 7th century ·
when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method 8th century ·
in Europe for naming years. 9th century
Decades: 740s · 750s · 760s ·
Events 770s · 780s
Years: 757 · 758 · 759 · 760
· 761 · 762 · 763
By place
760 in various calendars
Europe Gregorian 760
Frankish King Pepin III ("the Short") begins his calendar DCCLX
expedition to Septimania and Aquitaine. He conquers Ab urbe condita 1513
the cities of Carcassonne, Toulouse, Rodez and Albi.
Armenian 209
Duke Waifer of Aquitaine confiscates the Church lands,
and plunders Burgundy. Pepin invades Aquitanian-held calendar ԹՎ ՄԹ
Berry and the Auvergne, capturing the fortresses of Assyrian calendar 5510
Bourbon and Clermont. Waifer's Basque troops are
defeated by the Franks, and deported into northern Balinese saka 681–682
France with their children and wives. calendar
Bengali calendar 167

Britain Berber calendar 1710

Buddhist calendar 1304
Battle of Hereford: The Welsh kingdoms of Brycheiniog,
Gwent and Powys defeat the Mercians under King Offa Burmese calendar 122
at Hereford. They free themselves from the influence of Byzantine 6268–6269
the Anglo-Saxons.[1]
calendar
Offa's Dyke is constructed around this time, according to
the traditional history of this defensive earthwork. This Chinese calendar 己亥年
150-mile-long (240 km) earthwork marks the current (Earth Pig)
border with the Welsh kingdoms, between England and 3456 or 3396
Wales (approximate date). However, modern analysis of     — to —
Offa's Dyke suggests that it was built in the 5th century,
well before the reign of King Offa.
庚子年
(Metal Rat)
3457 or 3397
China Coptic calendar 476–477
Former emperor Xuanzong is placed under house arrest Discordian 1926
by the eunuch official Li Fuguo, with the support of calendar
Xuanzong's son, Suzong. Li Fuguo is appointed
Ethiopian calendar 752–753
commander of the Imperial Guards, possessing nearly
absolute power during Suzong's reign. Hebrew calendar 4520–4521
 The Kingdom of Nanzhao (Nanchao) in modern-day Hindu calendars
southern China expands into the Irrawaddy River
 - Vikram Samvat 816–817
region, first into Burma, then down into northern Laos
and Thailand (approximate date).  - Shaka Samvat 681–682
Lu Yu begins writing The Classic of Tea.  - Kali Yuga 3860–3861
Holocene calendar 10760
Mesoamerica Iranian calendar 138–139

The Maya city of Dos Pilas (modern Guatemala) is Islamic calendar 142–143
abandoned, after the Tamarindito and Petexbatún Japanese Tenpyō-hōji 4
centres revolt against their Dos Pilas overlord.[2] calendar 天平宝字４年
( )
Javanese 654–655
By topic calendar
Julian calendar 760
DCCLX
Religion
Korean calendar 3093
The Church of Santa Sophia is founded by the Lombard
duke Arechis II in Benevento (approximate date). Minguo calendar 1152 before
The Kailasa Temple is built on the orders of King ROC
Krishna I, of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty (modern India) 民前 1152 年
(approximate date). Nanakshahi −708
Bregowine is appointed archbishop of Canterbury in calendar
England.
Seleucid era 1071/1072 AG
Thai solar 1302–1303
Births calendar
Angilbert, Frankish diplomat and abbot (approximate Tibetan calendar 阴土猪年
date) (female Earth-
Fujiwara no Otomuro, Japanese empress consort (d. Pig)
790) 886 or 505 or
Jonas, bishop of Orléans (approximate date) −267
Sibawayh, Persian linguist and grammarian     — to —
(approximate date) 阳金鼠年
Theodulf, bishop of Orléans (approximate date) (male Iron-Rat)
Theophanes the Confessor, Byzantine monk (or 758) 887 or 506 or
Thomas the Slav, Byzantine general (approximate date) −266
Wei Guanzhi, Chinese chancellor (d. 821)
Zhang Hongjing, Chinese chancellor (d. 824)

Deaths
October 26 – Cuthbert, archbishop of Canterbury[3]
Dumnagual III, king of Alt Clut (Scotland)
Gangulphus, Burgundian courtier
Kōmyō, empress of Japan (b. 701)
Liutprand, duke of Benevento (approximate date)
Muiredach mac Murchado, king of Leinster (Ireland)
 Wu Daozi, Chinese painter (approximate
date)

References
1. Annales Cambriae.
2. O'Mansky & Dunning 2005, p. 94.
3. Bellenger, Dominic Aidan; Fletcher, Stella
(February 17, 2005). The Mitre and the
Crown: A History of the Archbishops of
Canterbury (https://books.google.com/books?
id=BbA7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT149). History
Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-7524-9495-1.
Pepin's expedition to Septimania and Aquitaine

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