769

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	730s 740s 750s – 760s – 770s 780s 790s
Years:	766 767 768 – 769 – 770 771 772

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

769 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	769 DCCLXIX
Ab urbe condita	1522
Armenian calendar	218 ԹՎ ՄԺԸ
Assyrian calendar	5519
Bengali calendar	176
Berber calendar	1719
Buddhist calendar	1313
Burmese calendar	131
Byzantine calendar	6277–6278
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3465 or 3405 — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3466 or 3406
Coptic calendar	485–486
Discordian calendar	1935
Ethiopian calendar	761–762
Hebrew calendar	4529–4530
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	825–826
- Shaka Samvat	691–692
- Kali Yuga	3870–3871
Holocene calendar	10769
Iranian calendar	147–148
Islamic calendar	151–152
Japanese calendar	Jingo-keiun 3 (神護景雲３年)
Julian calendar	769 DCCLXIX
Korean calendar	3102
Minguo calendar	1143 before ROC 民前1143年
Seleucid era	1080/1081 AG
Thai solar calendar	1311–1312

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Year 769 (DCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 769 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

King Charlemagne (Charles "the Great") begins a military campagne against Aquitaine and Gascony. He leads a Frankish army to the city of Bordeaux, where he sets up a fort at Fronsac. His younger brother Carloman I refuses to participate in the uprising and returns to Burgundy. Hunald, duke of Aquitaine, is forced to flee to the court of Gascony. Lupus II, fearing Charlemagne, turns Hunald over in exchange for peace, and is put in a monastery. Aquitaine and Gascony are subdued into the Frankish Kingdom.

April 12–15 – Pope Stephen III summons a Lateran Council: papal election procedure (abuse of which has led to the election of antipopes) is changed and the iconoclasm of the Council of Hieria is anathematized.
The Monastery of Tallaght is founded by Máel Ruain in Ireland. The monastery becomes a centre of learning and piety, particularly associated with the Céli Dé spiritual reform movement.
Hersfeld Abbey (modern-day Hesse-Nassau), Germany is founded by Lullus, archbishop of Mainz (approximate date).