Calendar year
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| 729 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 729 DCCXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1482 |
| Armenian calendar | 178 ԹՎ ՃՀԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5479 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 650–651 |
| Bengali calendar | 136 |
| Berber calendar | 1679 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1273 |
| Burmese calendar | 91 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6237–6238 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3426 or 3219 — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3427 or 3220 |
| Coptic calendar | 445–446 |
| Discordian calendar | 1895 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 721–722 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4489–4490 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 785–786 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 650–651 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3829–3830 |
| Holocene calendar | 10729 |
| Iranian calendar | 107–108 |
| Islamic calendar | 110–111 |
| Japanese calendar | Jinki 6 / Tenpyō 1 (天平元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 622–623 |
| Julian calendar | 729 DCCXXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3062 |
| Minguo calendar | 1183 before ROC 民前1183年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −739 |
| Seleucid era | 1040/1041 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1271–1272 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 855 or 474 or −298 — to — 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 856 or 475 or −297 |
Year 729 (DCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 729th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 729th year of the 1st millennium, the 29th year of the 8th century, and the 10th and last year of the 720s decade. The denomination 729 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Europe
- Battle of Ravenna: Byzantine troops under Eutychius, exarch of Ravenna, are defeated by an Italian force, raised by Gregory II, in opposition to iconoclasm.
- An alliance between Duke Eudes of Aquitaine and Munuza, the Moorish governor of Cerdanya, is cemented by marriage to Eudes' illegitimate daughter Lampégia.
- In Denmark, construction of the Kanhave Canal across the island of Samsø is completed. Although the canal is only about 500 metres long, it is one of the largest engineering projects undertaken in Denmark during the Early Middle Ages.
Britain
- King Osric of Northumbria nominates Ceolwulf, a distant cousin and brother of Coenred, as his successor. After Osric's death, Ceolwulf takes the throne.
Asia
- Battle of Baykand: The Umayyad Arabs narrowly escape disaster when cut off from water by the Turgesh, and push through to reach Bukhara in Transoxiana.
- Siege of Kamarja: A small Arab garrison defends the fortress of Kamarja against the Turgesh for 58 days, ending with a negotiated withdrawal to Samarkand.
By topic
Food and drink
- Chinese eating sticks are introduced in the next 20 years in Japan, where people heretofore have used one-piece pincers. The Japanese call them hashi.
Births
- Du Huangchang, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (or 728)
- Li Huaiguang, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 785)
Deaths
- May 9 – Osric, king of Northumbria
- Ecgberht of Ripon, bishop of Lindisfarne (b. 639)
- Nagaya, Japanese prince and politician (b. 684)
- Shen Quanqi, Chinese poet and official (b. 650)
References
- David Nicolle (2008). Poitiers AD 732, Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (p. 19). ISBN 978-184603-230-1
- Wickham, Chris. Framing the Early Middle Ages. p. 366.