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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Tiger庚寅(at the beginning of Earth Buffalo己丑)

Era of Diocletian: 466/467 ( year November )

Syria: 1061/62 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Umayyadenreich

Europe

• King Alfonso I can expel the Moors from Galicia.
• First mention of green field, Moeckmuehl and Marlishausen

America

• 750: Toltecs plunder the city of Teotihuacan, which is a ruined city.

• 750: The culture of the Basket Maker in the territory of Arizona introduces farming.

Religion and Culture

• 750: Production of the Stockholm Codex Aureus, a magnificent Gospels, in Canterbury.
• 750: Thekla is abbess in Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt as a successor to the Hadeloga.
• 750: Foundation of the monastery Tholey in Saarland, the monastery Moosburg in Bavaria and the monastery of Disentis in Graubünden.

Born

• 750: Angilbert, poet and chaplain of Charles the Great ( † 814)
• 750: Eigil, Abbot of Fulda († 822)
• 750: Simpert, Bishop of Augsburg, Holy († 807)

Died

• Marwan II, the last caliph of the Umayyad (* 688 )

• 750: Agilolf, Bishop of Cologne