743

This article is about the year 743. For the number, see 743 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	710s 720s 730s – 740s – 750s 760s 770s
Years:	740 741 742 – 743 – 744 745 746

743 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

743 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	743 DCCXLIII
Ab urbe condita	1496
Armenian calendar	192 ԹՎ ՃՂԲ
Assyrian calendar	5493
Bengali calendar	150
Berber calendar	1693
Buddhist calendar	1287
Burmese calendar	105
Byzantine calendar	6251–6252
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 3439 or 3379 — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3440 or 3380
Coptic calendar	459–460
Discordian calendar	1909
Ethiopian calendar	735–736
Hebrew calendar	4503–4504
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	799–800
- Shaka Samvat	665–666
- Kali Yuga	3844–3845
Holocene calendar	10743
Iranian calendar	121–122
Islamic calendar	125–126
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō 15 (天平１５年)
Julian calendar	743 DCCXLIII
Korean calendar	3076
Minguo calendar	1169 before ROC 民前1169年
Seleucid era	1054/1055 AG
Thai solar calendar	1285–1286

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King Childeric III (743–752)

Year 743 (DCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 743 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

Summer – Emperor Constantine V defeats his brother-in-law Artabasdos, who has led a 2-year insurrection in an attempt to usurp the Byzantine throne. He heads for Constantinople and captures the capital three months later. Artabasdos is his son Niketas are publicly blinded and relegate to the monastery of Chora.^[1] Constantine renews his policy against Iconoclasm.
Constantine V reforms the old Imperial Guard of Constantinople into new elite cavalry and infantry units called tagmata (Greek for 'the regiments'). He uses these troops against a rebellious theme in north-west Anatolia (modern Turkey), and later for offensive campaigns against Arab Muslim raiders and Bulgars.^[2]

Childeric III re-succeeds to the throne of the Frankish Kingdom as the last Merovingian king (until his death in 754) after an interregnum of seven years. Power remains firmly in the hands of the major domus, currently Carloman and Pepin the Short.
Duke Odilo of Bavaria comes to the aid of Boruth, prince (knyaz) of the Carantanians, against repeated Avars incursions in present-day Austria and is able to vassalize the Slavic principality. In exchange for Bavarian assistance, Boruth accepts his overlordship and is converted to Christianity.^[3]

King Æthelbald of Mercia joins forces with Wessex and attacks Gwent and Powys in Mid Wales (approximate date).

February 6 – Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik dies after a 19-year reign in which the Arab expansion in Europe has been stopped and the Umayyad Caliphate has come under pressure from the Turks in Central Asia and Berbers in North Africa. He is succeeded by his son Al-Walid II who has Khalid al-Qasri, former governor of Iraq, imprisoned and tortured for his un-Islamic beliefs.

Emperor Shōmu changes the law of Perpetual Ownership of Cultivated Lands. This permit aristocrats and members of the clergy to cultivate land. The new farmland will be called shoin.

The Concilium Germanicum: First major Church synod held in the eastern parts of the Frankish Kingdom. Organized by Carloman, mayor of the palcace of Austrasia, and presided by Boniface, who is solidified in his position as leader of the Frankish church.

↑ Garland 2006, p. 9
↑ Brian Todd Carey (2012). Road to Manzikert: "Byzantine warfare in an age of Crisis and Recovery", p. 71. ISBN 978-1-84884-215-1
↑ Curta, Florin (2006). Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521815390