771
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 740s 750s 760s – 770s – 780s 790s 800s |
| Years: | 768 769 770 – 771 – 772 773 774 |
| 771 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 771 DCCLXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1524 |
| Armenian calendar | 220 ԹՎ ՄԻ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5521 |
| Bengali calendar | 178 |
| Berber calendar | 1721 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1315 |
| Burmese calendar | 133 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6279–6280 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3467 or 3407 — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3468 or 3408 |
| Coptic calendar | 487–488 |
| Discordian calendar | 1937 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 763–764 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4531–4532 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 827–828 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 693–694 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3872–3873 |
| Holocene calendar | 10771 |
| Iranian calendar | 149–150 |
| Islamic calendar | 154–155 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōki 2 (宝亀２年) |
| Julian calendar | 771 DCCLXXI |
| Korean calendar | 3104 |
| Minguo calendar | 1141 before ROC 民前1141年 |
| Seleucid era | 1082/1083 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1313–1314 |
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Coin of Charlemagne (Carolus Magnus)
Year 771 (DCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 771 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
- December 4 – King Carloman I, youngest son of Pepin III ("the Short"), dies (of a severe nosebleed, according to one source)[1] at the Villa of Samoussy, leaving his brother Charlemagne sole ruler of the now complete Frankish Kingdom. Gerberga, the widow of Carloman, flees with her two sons to the court of king Desiderius of the Lombards at Pavia.
- Charlemagne repudiates his Lombard wife Desiderata (daughter of Desiderius) after 1-year of marriage. He marries the 13-year-old Swabian girl Hildegard, who will bear him nine children. Desiderius furious at Charlemagne of the divorce, planning a punitive campaign against the Franks and Rome.
Britain
- King Offa of Mercia defeats the Haestingas and joins their little region to his sub-kingdom of Sussex.[2][3]
Births
- Constantine VI, emperor of the Byzantine Empire
Deaths
- Amir Kror Suri, Muslim governor (approximate date)
- December 4 – Carloman I, king of the Franks (b. 751)
- Coirpre mac Fogartaig, king of Brega (Ireland)
- Fujiwara no Nagate, Japanese nobleman (b. 714)
- Remigius of Rouen, illegitimate son of Charles Martel