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Calendar year
Calendar year
Year
740
(
DCCXL
) was a
leap year starting on Friday
(link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar
, the 740th year of the
Common Era
(CE) and
Anno Domini
(AD) designations, the 740th year of the
1st millennium
, the 40th year of the
8th century
, and the 1st year of the
740s
decade. The denomination 740 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
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By place
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Byzantine Empire
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- Battle of Akroinon
: Following the disastrous
Battle of Sebastopolis
(see
692
), Emperor
Leo III
has largely confined himself to a defensive
strategy
, while the
Umayyad
armies regularly launch raids into
Byzantine
-held
Anatolia
.
[1]
Caliph
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
assembles an expeditionary force (90,000 men) under his son
Sulayman ibn Hisham
. One of these armies, 20,000 men strong under
Abdallah al-Battal
, is defeated at Akroinon (modern-day
Afyon
) by the Byzantines, led by Leo and his son, the future emperor
Constantine V
. About 6,800
Muslim Arabs
, however, resist and manage to conduct an orderly retreat to
Synnada
(
Phrygia
).
[2]
- October 26
–
740 Constantinople earthquake
. An
earthquake
strikes
Constantinople
and the surrounding countryside, causing destruction to the city's land
walls
and buildings.
Europe
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Britain
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Africa
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Asia
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By topic
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Religion
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Births
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Deaths
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- Abdallah al-Battal
, Arab general
- Æthelburg
, queen of
Wessex
- Æthelheard
, king of Wessex
- Æthelwold
, bishop of
Lindisfarne
- Acca
, bishop of
Hexham
(or
742
)
- Anna
, Byzantine princess and empress, wife of
Artabasdos
- Frithugyth
, queen of Wessex
- Gregory
, duke of
Benevento
- Hilderic
, duke of
Spoleto
- Khalid ibn Abi Habib al-Fihri
, Arab general
- Maysara al-Matghari
, Berber rebel leader
- Meng Haoran
, Chinese
poet
- Rhain ap Cadwgan
, king of
Dyfed
and
Brycheiniog
- Uqba ibn al-Hajjaj
, Arab governor
- Zayd ibn Ali
, Arab
imam
and grandson of
Husayn ibn Ali
(b.
695
)
- Zhang Jiuling
, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b.
673
)
References
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Blankinship, Khalid Yahya
(1994).
The End of the Jihad State: The Reign of Hish?m ibn ?Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads
. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. pp. 104?105, 117.
ISBN
978-0-7914-1827-7
.
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Blankinship, Khalid Yahya
(1994).
The End of the Jihad State: The Reign of Hish?m ibn ?Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads
. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. p. 170.
ISBN
978-0-7914-1827-7
.
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de Oliviera Marques, A. H. (1993). "O Portugal Islamico". In Joel Serrao and A. H. de Oliverira Marques (ed.).
Hova Historia de Portugal. Portugal das Invasoes Germanicas a Reconquista
. Lisbon: Editorial Presenca. p. 123.
- ^
Hartmann, Ludo Moritz.
Geschichte Italiens im Mittelalter
. II, pp. 2, 139.
- ^
D.P. Kirby,
The Earliest English Kings.
London: Unwin Hyman, 1991. pp. 150 & 154
ISBN
0-04-445691-3
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Barbara Yorke,
Kings and Kingdoms in Early Anglo-Saxon England.
London: Seaby, 1990. p. 89
ISBN
1-85264-027-8
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David Nicolle (2008). Poitiers AD 732, Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (p. 19).
ISBN
978-184603-230-1