729
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 690s 700s 710s – 720s – 730s 740s 750s |
| Years: | 726 727 728 – 729 – 730 731 732 |
| 729 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 729 DCCXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1482 |
| Armenian calendar | 178 ԹՎ ՃՀԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5479 |
| Bengali calendar | 136 |
| Berber calendar | 1679 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1273 |
| Burmese calendar | 91 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6237–6238 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3425 or 3365 — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3426 or 3366 |
| Coptic calendar | 445–446 |
| Discordian calendar | 1895 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 721–722 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4489–4490 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 785–786 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 651–652 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3830–3831 |
| Holocene calendar | 10729 |
| Iranian calendar | 107–108 |
| Islamic calendar | 110–111 |
| Japanese calendar | Jinki 6 / Tenpyō 1 (天平元年) |
| Julian calendar | 729 DCCXXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3062 |
| Minguo calendar | 1183 before ROC 民前1183年 |
| Seleucid era | 1040/1041 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1271–1272 |
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Year 729 (DCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 729 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
Europe
- Battle of Ravenna: Byzantine troops under Eutychius, exarch of Ravenna, are defeated by a Italian force, raised by pope Gregory II in defence of iconoclasm.
- Alliance between duke Eudes of Aquitaine and Munuza, Moorish governor of Cerdanya, cemented by marriage with Eudes' illegitimate daughter Lampégia.[1]
Britain
- King Osric of Northumbria nominates Ceolwulf, a distant cousin and brother of Coenred as his successor. After Osric's death Ceolwulf takes the throne.
Asia
- Battle of Baykand: The Umayyad Arabs narrowly escape disaster when cut off from water by the Turgesh, and push through to reach Bukhara in Transoxiana.
- Siege of Kamarja: A small Arab garrison defends the fortress of Kamarja against the Turgesh for 58 days, ending with a negotiated withdrawal to Samarkand.
By topic
Food and drink
- Chinese eating sticks are introduced in the next 20 years in Japan, where people heretofore have used one-piece pincers. The Japanese called them hashi.
Births
- Li Huaiguang, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 785)
Deaths
- Ecgberht of Ripon, bishop of Lindisfarne (b. 639)
- Nagaya, Japanese prince and politician (b. 684)
- May 9 – Osric, king of Northumbria
- Shen Quanqi, Chinese poet and official (b. 650)
References
- ↑ David Nicolle (2008). Poitiers AD 732, Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (p. 19). ISBN 978-184603-230-1