743

Calendar overview 743

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743
The Carolingian House Meier set with Childeric III. one last time a Merovingian shadow king.
743 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	191/192 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	735/736
Buddhist calendar	1286/87 (southern Buddhism); 1285/86 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	57th (58th) cycle Year of the water sheep癸未 ( at the beginning of the year water horse 壬午)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	105/106 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	121/122 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	125/126 (October 24/25)
Jewish calendar	4503/04 (23/24 September)
Coptic calendar	459/460
Roman calendar	from urbe condita MXDVI (1496) Diocletian's era : 459/460 (turn of the year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1053/54 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1054/55 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	781
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	799/800 (turn of the year April)

Events

The caretakers Pippin and Karlmann march against the Slavs , Saxons and Alemanni under Bavarian Duke Odilo and Alemanni Duke Theudebald . Both dukes flee after the defeat on the Lech .
Victory of the house manger Karlmann over the Saxons; the Thuringian Hassegau is subjugated.
The Carolingian housekeepers set up a Merovingian shadow king for the last time, after several years of reignless government : Childerich III. , the son of Chilperich II.

King Aethelbald of Mercia and King Ceolred of Wessex jointly attack the Welsh empires of Gwent and Powys.

Atanagildo succeeds Teodomiro as ruler of the south-east Spanish Visigothic rule Todmir , which is under Moorish suzerainty.

Liutprand , King of the Lombards , makes peace with the Pope and renounces the conquest of Rome .
Gisulf II becomes Duke of Benevento .

Emperor Constantine V succeeds in taking his capital, Constantinople , which the usurper Artabasdos has occupied; this is killed by the emperor.

After the death of the caliph Hisham from the Umayyad dynasty , Al-Walid II became his successor. He only ruled for a year.
A riot of Kharijites in Kufa spreads to the whole of Iraq. He can only be suppressed by the Umayyads in 746 .

Uighur uprising under Iltimis Kutluq Bilge-Kül against the rule of the Gök Turks . The Karluken and Oghusen ally with the Uighurs ; the rebels succeed in overthrowing and killing the Gök Turk Khan Ozmysh. Thereupon Bomei-Tegin becomes the last Khan of the Gök Turks.

The land around Fulda is donated to Bonifatius in the Karlmann donation to do missionary work in the area.

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