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Calendar overview 760
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Fruela I of Asturias and his army defeat the Moors in the battle of Pontuvio . |
According to legend, the Burgundian knight Gangolf was murdered around 760. |
760 in other calendars | |
Armenian calendar | 208/209 (turn of the year July) |
Ethiopian calendar | 752/753 |
Buddhist calendar | 1303/04 (southern Buddhism); 1302/03 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 57th (58th) cycle
Year of the Metal Rat庚子 ( at the beginning of the Earth Pig year 己亥) |
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 122/123 (turn of the year April) |
Iranian calendar | 138/139 (around March 21) |
Islamic calendar | 142/143 (April 21/22) |
Jewish calendar | 4520/21 (September 14/15) |
Coptic calendar | 476/477 |
Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MDXIII (1513)
Diocletian's era : 476/477 (New Year November) |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 1070/71 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1071/72 (turn of the year October) |
Spanish era | 798 |
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 816/817 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
- Reconquista : Battle of Pontuvio: King Fruela I of Asturias triumphs with his army over the Moors and wins Galicia .
- Æthelred I becomes king of East Anglia .
- First documentary mention of Buch am Erlbach and Unterschneidbach
science and technology
- Arabs adopt the Indian number system and develop algebra and trigonometry .
religion
- Johann II becomes Bishop of Constance as the successor to Sidonius.
- before 760: The Irish Scottish monk Alto founds the Altomünster monastery .
Born
- Nafisa at-Tahira , Islamic saint († 825 )
- around 760: Hildegrim von Chalons , Bishop of Halberstadt and Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne († 827 )
- around 760: Nikephorus I , Byzantine emperor († 811 )
- around 760: Theodulf von Orléans , Visigoth scholar († 821 )
- around 760: Theophanes , Byzantine chronicler († 818 )
Died
- July 4th : Sidonius of Constance , bishop
- August 14 : Werenfried , saint, patron saint of vegetable gardeners and gout sufferers
- October 26 : Cuthbert , Archbishop of Canterbury
- around 760: Gangolf , saint and patron saint
- around 760: Ismail ibn Jafar , seventh imam of the Ismailis (* 736 )
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