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Year 760 (DCCLX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 760 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

• King Pepin III ("the Short") begins his Frankish expedition to Septimania and Aquitaine. He conquers the cities of Carcassone, Toulouse, Rodez and Albi. Duke Waifer of Aquitaine confiscates the Church lands and plunders Burgundy. Pepin invades Aquitanian-held Berry and the Auvergne, capturing the fortresses of Bourbon and Clermont. Waifer's Basque troops are defeated by the Franks, and deported into northern France with their childern and wives.

Britain

• Battle of Hereford: The Welsh kingdoms of Brycheiniog, Gwent and Powys defeat the Mercians under king Offa at Hereford. They free themselves from the influence of the Anglo-Saxons.
• Offa's Dyke is constructed, a 150-mile-long (240 km) earthwork which marks the current border with the Welsh kingdoms between England and Wales (approximate date).

China

• Former emperor Xuan Zong is placed under house arrest by the eunuch official Li Fuguo with the support of emperor Su Zong. Li Fuguo is appointed commander of the Imperial Guards, possessing nearly absolute power during Su Zong's reign.
• The Kingdom of Nanzhao (Nanchao) in present-day southern China expands into the Irrawaddy Valley. First into Burma, then down into northern Laos and Thailand (approximate date).

Mesoamerica

• The Maya city of Dos Pilas (modern Guatemala) is abandoned after Tamarindito and Petexbatún centres revolt against their Dos Pilas overlord.

By topic

Literature

• The Book of Kells is composed. Columban monks from the monastery island of Iona (Inner Hebrides), which lies off the coast of Scotland, illustrate an ornamented book which contains transcriptions of the "four Gospels" of the New Testament. It becomes the most elaborate illuminated manuscript of its kind to have survived from the Middle Ages (approximate date).

Religion

• The Church of Santa Sophia is founded by the Lombard duke Arechis II in Benevento (approximate date).
• The Kailasa Temple is built on the orders of king Krishna I of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty (modern India).

Births

• Angilbert, Frankish diplomat and abbot (approximate date)
• Fujiwara no Otomuro, Japanese noblewoman (d. 790)
• Sibawayh, Persian linguist and grammarian (approximate date)
• Theodulf, bishop of Orléans (approximate date)
• Theophanes the Confessor, Byzantine monk (or 758)

Deaths

• October 26 – Cuthbert, archbishop of Canterbury
• Dumnagual III, king of Alt Clut (modern Scotland)
• Gangulphus, Burgundian courtier
• Kōmyō, empress of Japan (b. 701)
• Liutprand, duke of Benevento (approximate date)
• Wu Daozi, Chinese painter (approximate date)

References

1. Annales Cambriae
2. O'Mansky & Dunning 2005, p. 94

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