748
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This article is about the year 748. For the number, see 748 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 710s 720s 730s – 740s – 750s 760s 770s |
| Years: | 745 746 747 – 748 – 749 750 751 |
| 748 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 748 DCCXLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1501 |
| Armenian calendar | 197 ԹՎ ՃՂԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5498 |
| Bahá'í calendar | −1096 – −1095 |
| Bengali calendar | 155 |
| Berber calendar | 1698 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1292 |
| Burmese calendar | 110 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6256–6257 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3444 or 3384 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3445 or 3385 |
| Coptic calendar | 464–465 |
| Discordian calendar | 1914 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 740–741 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4508–4509 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 804–805 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 670–671 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3849–3850 |
| Holocene calendar | 10748 |
| Igbo calendar | −252 – −251 |
| Iranian calendar | 126–127 |
| Islamic calendar | 130–131 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpyō 20 (天平２０年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 748 DCCXLVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3081 |
| Minguo calendar | 1164 before ROC 民前1164年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1291 |
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Year 748 (DCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 748 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
By place
Asia
- January – An earthquake strikes the Middle East from northern Egypt to northwestern Mesopotamia, destroying many remnants of Byzantine culture.
- February 14 – The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim take Marv, the capital of the province of Khurasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. Abbasid forces under Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i take Nishapur and Rayy, defeating an Ummayad army at Gurgan.
- The city of Baalbek is sacked.
- The plague breaks out in Constantinople.
Births
- Charlemagne, king and emperor of the Franks (disputed date)
Deaths
- December 9 – Nasr ibn Sayyar, last Umayyad governor of Khurasan (b. 663)
- Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 680)
- Wasil ibn Ata, Muslim theologian (b. 700)
References
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