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Calendar overview 772
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 captures the Eresburg and destroys the Irminsul . |
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| 772 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 220/221 (July turn of the year) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 764/765 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1315/16 (Southern Buddhism); 1314/15 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 57th (58th) cycle
Year of the Water Rat壬子 ( at the beginning of the year Metal Pig 辛亥) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 134/135 (April turn of the year) |
| Iranian calendar | 150/151 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 155/156 (December 1/2) |
| Jewish calendar | 4532/33 (September 2nd/3rd) |
| Coptic calendar | 488/489 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MDXXV (1525)
Era of Diocletian : 488/489 (turn of the year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1082/83 (April turn of the year)
Syria: 1083/84 (October turn of the year) |
| Spanish era | 810 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese calendar) | 828/829 (New Year April) |
events
politics and world affairs
Frankish kingdom
- February 1: Hadrian I. is named as the successor to Stephen III , who died on January 24 . elected Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. The Lombard king Desiderius tried in vain to persuade him, like his predecessor, to adopt a policy that was friendly to the Lombards and hostile to the Franks.
- Summer: Charlemagne starts war against the Saxons , conquers the Eresburg (now Marsberg – Obermarsberg south of Paderborn ) and destroys the Irminsul , a Saxon sanctuary. Then he moves to the Weser; Here he negotiates with the Saxons, receives 12 hostages and returns to France (Reichsannalen 780).
British Islands
- After the end of the reigns of King Osmund and his fellow kings Oswald and Oslac , Sussex became dependent on Mercia . Ealdwulf , the successor and last ruler of Sussex, is wholly dependent on Offa of Mercia .
Africa
- Morocco is annexed to the empire of the Arab Abbasids .
- An uprising by the Kharijites under Abu Quna and Ibn Rustam against the Abbasids and their governors in present-day Tunisia , the Muhallabites , fails at Kairouan ; Ibn Rustam, founder of the Rustamid dynasty , retires to Tahert (now Algeria ).
Documentary first mentions
- August 12: The towns of Ahlbach , Brechen and Lindenholzhausen are mentioned for the first time in a deed of donation from the Robertinerin Rachilde to the Lorsch monastery .
- First documented mention of Bettenau , Dittigheim , Empfingen , Frankenthal (Palatinate) , Geisenheim , Hartheim am Rhein , Kenzingen , Reute (Breisgau) , Trudering , Ober-Eschbach , Oberweyer , Schernberg , Tennstedt , Uettingen , Untersiggingen and Vöhringen
religion
- probably October 14, 771 or 772: In Bavaria , under Duke Tassilo III. the Synod of Neuching held.
- Tozzo becomes second Bishop of Augsburg , succeeding Wikterp .
- According to legend, Desiderius , king of the Lombards, founded the monastery of San Pietro al Monte in Lombardy.
- Charlemagne elevated the Lorsch monastery to the status of an imperial abbey .
Born
- Bai Juyi , Chinese poet (died 846)
- Li Ao , Reform Confucian († 841)
- Wiho I. , Bishop of Osnabrück († around 804)
- 772/773: Charlemagne , son of Charlemagne († 811)
Died
- January 24: Stephen III. , Pope
- Dōkyō , Japanese Buddhist monk (b. c. 700)
- c.772: Amalberga of Ghent , Catholic saint
- around 772: Modestus of Carinthia , missionary bishop in Carinthia
- around 772: Wikterp , first bishop of Augsburg
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