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Calendar overview 726
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Abbo of Provence founds the Novalesa monastery . | |
726 in other calendars | |
Armenian calendar | 174/175 (turn of the year July) |
Ethiopian calendar | 718/719 |
Buddhist calendar | 1269/70 (southern Buddhism); 1268/69 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 57th (58th) cycle
Year of the fire tiger丙寅 ( at the beginning of the year wood buffalo 乙丑) |
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 88/89 (turn of the year April) |
Iranian calendar | 104/105 (around March 21) |
Islamic calendar | 107/108 (May 7/8) |
Jewish calendar | 4486/87 (September 1st and 2nd) |
Coptic calendar | 442/443 |
Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MCDLXXIX (1479)
Diocletian's era : 442/443 (November turn of the year) |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 1036/37 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1037/38 (turn of the year October) |
Spanish era | 764 |
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 782/783 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
- Beginning of the Byzantine Iconoclasm : Emperor Leo III. has the large, golden icon of Christ on the Chalke gate of his imperial palace destroyed in a demonstrative act , which leads to an initial uproar among the population.
- King Ine of Wessex resigns and goes on a pilgrimage to Rome . Æthelheard becomes the new king .
- Eochaid III. becomes King of the Irish-Scottish Empire Dalriada .
- Antwerp is mentioned for the first time.
religion
Sport and culture
Disasters
- An earthquake destroyed the city of Gerasa (Jerash, north of Amman ) in what is now Jordan .
Born
Died
- Anbasa ibn Suhaym al-Kalbi , Muslim governor of Al-Andalus
- Tobias , Bishop of Rochester
- around 726: Marcello Tegalliano , Doge of Venice
- around 726: Oda von Brabant , Catholic saint
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