768

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	730s 740s 750s – 760s – 770s 780s 790s
Years:	765 766 767 – 768 – 769 770 771

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

768 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	768 DCCLXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1521
Armenian calendar	217 ԹՎ ՄԺԷ
Assyrian calendar	5518
Bengali calendar	175
Berber calendar	1718
Buddhist calendar	1312
Burmese calendar	130
Byzantine calendar	6276–6277
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3464 or 3404 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3465 or 3405
Coptic calendar	484–485
Discordian calendar	1934
Ethiopian calendar	760–761
Hebrew calendar	4528–4529
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	824–825
- Shaka Samvat	690–691
- Kali Yuga	3869–3870
Holocene calendar	10768
Iranian calendar	146–147
Islamic calendar	150–151
Japanese calendar	Jingo-keiun 2 (神護景雲２年)
Julian calendar	768 DCCLXVIII
Korean calendar	3101
Minguo calendar	1144 before ROC 民前1144年
Seleucid era	1079/1080 AG
Thai solar calendar	1310–1311

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Year 768 (DCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 768 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

September 24 – King Pepin III ("the Short") dies at Saint-Denis, Neustria (France). The Frankish Kingdom is divided between his two sons: Charlemagne and Carloman I. According to Salic law Charlemagne (western Franks) receives the outer parts of the kingdom bordering on the sea, namely Neustria, western Aquitaine, and the northern parts of Austrasia; while Carloman (eastern Franks) is awarded his uncle's former share, the inner parts: southern Austrasia, Septimania, eastern Aquitaine, Burgundy, Provence, and Swabia, lands bordering Italy.
Waiofar, duke of Aquitaine, and his family is captured and executed by the Franks in the forest of Périgord.^[1] Waiofar's kinsman Hunald succeeds to his claims and continues to fight against Charlemagne.^[2]
King Fruela I ("the Cruel") is assassinated in Cangas, his capital, after he has murdered his brother Vimerano. Fruela is succeeded by his cousin Aurelius who is chosen by the nobility as ruler of Asturias.
The creation of Serbia (approximate date).

King Alhred of Northumbria marries princess Osgifu, possibly daughter of the late king Oswulf (approximate date).

In Al-Andalus, the Berber tribal chieftain Saqiya ibn Abd al Wahid al-Miknasi leads a rebellion against the Emirate of Córdoba in the present-day Spanish province of Extremadura.^[3]

The Kasuga Shrine is erected at Nara (Japan) by the Fujiwara family. The interior is famous for its many bronze lanterns, as well the stone lanterns that lead up the shrine.

August 7 – Pope Stephen III succeeds Paul I as the 94th pope of the Catholic Church. The antipope Constantine II is overthrown at Rome through intervention by king Desiderius of the Lombards after a brief reign (see 767).
Lebuinus, Anglo-Saxon missionary, founds the city of Deventer (modern-day Netherlands) and builds a wooden church on the bank of the River IJssel (approximate date).
Archbishop Elfodd of Gwynedd persuades the Welsh Church to accept the Roman dating of Easter as agreed by the British Church at the Synod of Whitby (see 664).

↑ Lewis 1965, pp. 27-28.
↑ Bachrach 1974, p. 13.
↑ Joel Serrão and A. H. de Oliverira Marques (1993). "O Portugal Islâmico". In Joel Serrão and A. H. de Oliverira Marques. Hova Historia de Portugal. Portugal das Invasões Germânicas à Reconquista. Lisbon: Editorial Presença. p. 124.