771
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| 771 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 771 DCCLXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1524 |
| Armenian calendar | 220 ԹՎ ՄԻ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5521 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 692–693 |
| Bengali calendar | 178 |
| Berber calendar | 1721 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1315 |
| Burmese calendar | 133 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6279–6280 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3468 or 3261 — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3469 or 3262 |
| Coptic calendar | 487–488 |
| Discordian calendar | 1937 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 763–764 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4531–4532 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 827–828 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 692–693 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3871–3872 |
| Holocene calendar | 10771 |
| Iranian calendar | 149–150 |
| Islamic calendar | 154–155 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōki 2 (宝亀２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 665–666 |
| Julian calendar | 771 DCCLXXI |
| Korean calendar | 3104 |
| Minguo calendar | 1141 before ROC 民前1141年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −697 |
| Seleucid era | 1082/1083 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1313–1314 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 897 or 516 or −256 — to — 阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 898 or 517 or −255 |
The year 771 (DCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 771 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
[edit]By place
[edit]Europe
[edit]- December 4 – King Carloman I, youngest son of Pepin III ("the Short"), dies (of a severe nosebleed, according to one source)[1] at the Villa of Samoussy, leaving his brother Charlemagne sole ruler of the now reunified Frankish Kingdom. Gerberga, the widow of Carloman, flees with her two sons to the court of King Desiderius of the Lombards, at Pavia.
- Charlemagne repudiates his Lombard wife Desiderata, daughter of Desiderius, after one year of marriage. He marries the 13-year-old Swabian girl Hildegard, who will bear him nine children. Desiderius, furious at Charlemagne, plans a punitive campaign against the Franks and Rome.
- King Offa of Mercia defeats the Haestingas, and joins their little region to his sub-kingdom of Sussex.[2][3]
Americas
[edit]- Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Yopaat dedicates a 65-ton stele, the largest stone known to be quarried by the Maya civilization, at his city of Quiriguá.
Births
[edit]- Al-Hakam I, Muslim emir of Córdoba (d. 822)
- Ubaydallah ibn al-Mahdi, Abbasid prince and Politician (d. 810)
- Constantine VI, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 797)
Deaths
[edit]- December 4 – Carloman I, king of the Franks (b. 751)
- Amir Kror Suri, also known as Jahan Pahlawan, is a fictional character in Pashtun history (approximate date)
- Coirpre mac Fogartaig, king of Brega (Ireland)
- Fujiwara no Nagate, Japanese nobleman (b. 714)
- Remigius of Rouen, illegitimate son of Charles Martel