754

:''For the computer standard IEEE 754, see IEEE floating-point standard.''
:''For the CPU socket developed by AMD, see Socket 754.
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Contents

Events

By Place

Asia

Europe

By Topic

Religion

Deaths

Events

By Place

Asia

★ al-Mansur starts to rule.

Europe

★ Pope Stephen II crowns Pepin the short King of the Franks at Saint-Denis outside Paris; also dedicates the foundations of the new abbey church.

★ Pepin the Short sends his armies into Italy to aid the pope against the Lombards.

★ Fire in Canterbury.

★ Oldest document mentioning the city of Ferrara is from this year (approximate date).

By Topic

Religion

★ The Iconoclast Council of Hieria meets.

Deaths

★ June 5 — Saint Boniface (or 755).

★ Al-Saffah, first Abbasid caliph (b. 721).

★ Carloman, Mayor of the Palace of the Franks (b. 716).

★ Rhodri Molwynog ap Idwal, king of Gwynedd in Wales.

★ Hiltrud, duchess of Bavaria.

★ Cui Hao, Chinese poet (born 704).