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Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ Pepin the Short defeats the Lombards of northern Italy who have threatened Pope Stephen III. The Donation of Pepin is a cession of lands including Ravenna that will become the basis of the Papal States.

★ Abd-ar-rahman I conquers Iberia and re-establishes the Umayyad dynasty at Cordoba in modern Spain.

★ Desiderius succeeds Aistulf as king of the Lombards.

★ Vinekh succeeds Kormisosh as king of Bulgaria.

Asia

★ The army of An Lushan captured Chang'an in rebellion against the Tang Dynasty.

★ Yang Guozhong was killed by the angry soldiers, Yang Guifei and most people in the family of Yang were killed.

★ Emperor Suzong of Tang China ascended the throne after his father Emperor Xuanzong abdicated while fleeing to Sichuan during the An Lushan rebellion.

Births

Deaths

★ Emperor Shōmu, emperor of Japan (b. 701).

★ December — Aistulf, king of the Lombards.

★ Yang Guifei, Consort of Emperor Xuanzong (executed).

★ Gao Xianzhi, ethnic Korean general in service of the Chinese Tang Dynasty.

★ July 15 — Yang Guozhong, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty.