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Heads of State
Year of the Metal Dragon庚辰(at the beginning of earth - hare己卯)
Era of Diocletian: 456/457 ( year November )
Syria: 1051/52 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Islamic expansion / Reconquista
- Rebellion of the Shiite imam Zaid ibn Ali in Kufa against the Umayyad rule. The rebellion is suppressed, Zaid is killed.
- In the battle of Akroinon defeated Byzantium under Leo III. the Muslim army of Caliph Hisham and distributes the Arabs from Asia Minor.
- From 740: King Alfonso I succeed in the Reconquista, the conquest of Galicia from the Moors.
British Isles
- Campaign of the king of Mercia Aethelbald after Northumbria, where he ravaged the city of York
- Cuthred becomes King of Wessex as the successor of Aethelheard
Founding cities and Ersturkundliche mentions
- 740: system of a royal court in Duisburg
- 740: Establishment of a mission base in Kempten as the core of the later city
- 740: Foundation of Cella in Bisonzio by monks (today: Zell am See)
Religion
- Cuthbert is Archbishop of Canterbury as the successor of Nothhelm.
- 740: Foundation of the Benedictine monastery Benediktbeuren by the Bavarian noble family of Huosi
Disasters
- OCTOBER 26: A massive earthquake rocked Konstantin Opel.
Born
Died
- Æthelwald of Lindisfarne, Bishop of Lindisfarne
- Æthelheard, King of Wessex
- Battal Gazi, Arabic commander
- Meng Haoran, Chinese poet (* 689/691)
- Hilderic, Duke of Spoleto
- Zaid ibn Ali, imam of the Zaidi
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