750 To 774750c - Iraq Abbasid Dynasty of Islam in Baghdad. The "golden age" of Islamic cultureu.1258
751x - Pippin the Short b.714- d.768 dethrones the last Merovingian king and becomes King of the Franks.
x - Arabs win Battle of River Talas, central Asia; Islam comes to China
x - Paper manufactured outside of China, in Samarkand by Chinese captured in war.
752mar 15 - Pope Zacharias, r.741-mar 15 752, dies. ormar 22 752.
mar 22 - Stephen II elected Catholic Pope. or mar 23 752
mar 26 - Pope Stephen II elected mar 22 752 or mar 23 752, dies.
754jan 07 - Pope Stephen III arrives in Ponthion.
apr 14 - Pact of Quierzy between Pope Stephen III and Pippin the Short b.714-d.sep 24 768.
jun 05 - Eoda, English speaking bishop of Utrecht, murdered.
jun 05 - English saint/archbishop Boniface, Winfrid a79, b.c672 and over 50 companions are killed by Freisen Pagans at Dokkum.
jul 28 - Pope Stephen III crowns Pippin the Short b.714-d.sep 24 768.
aug 17 - Karloman, abbot of Monte cassino, dies at 39.
755x - Pippin the Short b.714-d.sep 24 768 donates land taken from the Lombards to the papacy
756x - Pippin the Short b.714 d.768 protects Pope Stephen III from the Lombards.
may 15 - Abd-al-Rahman I becomes emir of Cordova Spain.
757apr 26 - Pope Stephen III dies r.mar 22 752-apr 26 757 and Paul I becomes pope. re.List of Popes
may 29 - Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. r.u.jun 28 767
758jun 23 - Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher/disciple of Hui-neng, dies at 74.
760x - Karaism founded, a Jewish reaction to Rabbinic Judaism
may 22 - 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
762x - Abbasid dynasty ruling Iraq makes Baghdad its capital,
765x - Picture books printed in Japan.
dec 31 - Coffin of Ho-tse Shen-hui interred in a stupa built in China.
766mar 06 - Chrodegang, church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50.
767jun 28 - Pope Paul I dies and Stephen IV becomes pope. re.List of Popes
jul 05 - Antipope Duke of Nepi names his brother (leek) Pope Constantine II.
768aug 06 - Antipope Constantine ends his reign as Pope.
aug 07 - Stephen IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
sep 24 - Charlemagne a.26 and his brother Carloman inherit the kingdom of the Franks from their father Pippin the Short b.714.
sep 24 - Pippin III, the short, King of France, dies at 53. b.714
770x - Charlemagne marries Desiderata, daughter of the Lombard King Desiderius.
771dec 05 - Charlemagne's brother Carloman II of Burgandy dies a.c20 and Charlemagne becomes ruler of a reunited Frankish Kingdom.
772jan 24 - Pope Stephen IV dies, ending his reign as Catholic Pope. re.List of Popes
feb 01 - Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
mar 01 - Po Tjiu-i, Chinese poet/governor of Hang-tsjow, is born.
774x - Charlemagne defeats the Lombards
x - Charlemagne aids Pope Adrian I and conquers the lands of his brief father-in-law after a lengthy siege of Pavia.Charlemagne spends the following Easter in Rome and reaffirms his vow to protect Papal lands.
apr 06 - Charlemagne affirms Pippin's promise of Quiercy. s.apr 14 754
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