744

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Contents

Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ February — Hildeprand succeeds Liutprand as king of the Lombards.

★ October — Ratchis succeeds Hildeprand as king of the Lombards.

Asia

★ Chinese poet Li Po meets Du Fu for the first time.

★ Umayyad caliph al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik succeeded by Yazid III ibn Abd al-Malik, Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Malik, and Marwan II.

By Topic

Religion

★ Synod of Soissons meets at the instigation of Pippin, and Boniface, the Pope's missionary to pagan Germany, secures the condemnation of Frankish bishop Adalbert and Irish missionary Clement.

★ 3 March — Abel becomes archbishop of Reims.

★ Theophylact succeeds Stephen IV as Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.

★ Saint Sturm establishes the monastery of Fulda. (or 742?)

★ Salih ibn Tarif proclaims himself a prophet among the Berghouata of Morocco.

Births

★ Redburga, queen of Egbert of Wessex

Deaths

★ February — Liutprand, king of the Lombards

★ April 16 — al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph

★ Stephen IV, Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (b. 720)