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Calendar overview 759
Map with all linked sites: | 759 | |
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 the first larger Japanese anthology of poems. |
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| 759 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 207/208 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 751/752 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1302/03 (southern Buddhism); 1301/02 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 57th (58th) cycle
Year of the Earth-Pig己亥 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Dog 戊戌) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 121/122 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 137/138 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 141/142 (3rd / 4th May) |
| Jewish calendar | 4519/20 (August 27-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 475/476 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MDXII (1512)
Diocletian's era : 475/476 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1069/70 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1070/71 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 797 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 815/816 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
- Battle of the Rishki Pass
- Desiderius , King of the Lombards , makes his son Adelchis co-king.
- The king of the Franconian Empire , Pippin the Younger , succeeds in finally conquering Septimania with Narbonne from the Moors and integrating it into his empire.
- Æthelwald Moll becomes king of Northumbria . He replaces King Oswulf .
- Government motto Qiányuán (乾元 'Heaven') from Tang Emperor Tang Suzong .
Culture
- The Japanese poet Ōtomo no Yakamochi compiles with the Man'yōshū the first larger Japanese anthology of poems .
religion
- Bregwin becomes Archbishop of Canterbury .
Born
- Asad ibn al-Furāt , Muslim legal scholar and theologian († 828 )
- Quan Deyu , Chinese politician († 818 )
- Theodor Studites , abbot († 826 )
Died
- November 16 : Otmar von St. Gallen , founder and first abbot of the St. Gallen Monastery (* around 689 )
- Oswulf , King of Northumbria
- around 759: Ratchis , King of the Lombards
- around 759: Wang Wei , Chinese poet and landscape painter (* 698 )
Web links
Commons : 759 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
