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Contents

Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ Pepin the Short is elected as king of the Franks by the Frankish nobility, marking the end of the Merovingian and beginning of the Carolingian dynasty.

★ The Lombard king Aistulf captures Ravenna and the Romagna, ending the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna.

Asia

★ Arabian armies defeated Chinese Tang troops in the Battle of Talas near Samarkand.

★ The Japanese poetry anthology ''Kaifūsō'' is assembled.

By Topic

Religion

★ The oldest surviving printed document, a Buddhist scripture, is printed in Korea

★ Theodore succeeds Theophylact as Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.

★ Silla minister Gim Daeseong orders construction to begin on the Bulguksa and Seokguram temples at Gyeongju.

Births

★ Carloman, king of the Franks (d. 771)

Deaths

★ Childeric III, Merovingian king of the Franks who was deposed by Pepin the Short