759 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 759
DCCLIX
Ab urbe condita 1512
Armenian calendar 208
ԹՎ ՄԸ
Assyrian calendar 5509
Balinese saka calendar 680–681
Bengali calendar 165–166
Berber calendar 1709
Buddhist calendar 1303
Burmese calendar 121
Byzantine calendar 6267–6268
Chinese calendar 戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
3456 or 3249
    — to —
己亥年 (Earth Pig)
3457 or 3250
Coptic calendar 475–476
Discordian calendar 1925
Ethiopian calendar 751–752
Hebrew calendar 4519–4520
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 815–816
 - Shaka Samvat 680–681
 - Kali Yuga 3859–3860
Holocene calendar 10759
Iranian calendar 137–138
Islamic calendar 141–142
Japanese calendar Tenpyō-hōji 3
(天平宝字３年)
Javanese calendar 653–654
Julian calendar 759
DCCLIX
Korean calendar 3092
Minguo calendar 1153 before ROC
民前1153年
Nanakshahi calendar −709
Seleucid era 1070/1071 AG
Thai solar calendar 1301–1302
Tibetan calendar ས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་
(male Earth-Dog)
885 or 504 or −268
    — to —
ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Earth-Boar)
886 or 505 or −267
Muslim troops leaving Narbonne to Pepin III

Year 759 (DCCLIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 759 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

Byzantine Empire

  • Battle of the Rishki Pass: Emperor Constantine V invades Bulgaria again, but his forces are ambushed and defeated while crossing the Rishki Pass, near Stara Planina (modern Bulgaria). The Bulgarian ruler (khagan) Vinekh does not exploit his success, and begins peace negotiations.[1]

Europe

  • Siege of Narbonne: The Franks under King Pepin III ("the Short") retake Narbonne from the Muslims, after a 7-year siege. He pushes them back across the Pyrenees, and the Muslims retreat to the Andalusian heartland after 40 years of occupation. The government of the city is assigned to the Visigothic count Miló.

Britain

  • July 24 – King Oswulf of Northumbria is murdered by members of his own household (his servants or bodyguards), at Market Weighton. The Deiran patrician, Æthelwald Moll, who probably conspired in the regicide, is crowned king of Northumbria. He may have been a descendant of the late king Oswine of Deira.
  • Exceptional winter in England: Frost begins October 1, and ends February 26, 760.[2]

Abbasid Caliphate

  • Caliph al-Mansur of the Abbasid Caliphate launches the conquest of Tabaristan (on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea). Its ruler, Khurshid II, flees into the mountainous region of Daylam.

Asia

  • An Lushan Rebellion: Tang forces under Guo Ziyi lay siege to the city of Yanjing (Northern China) as they increase their efforts to end the rebellion. The fighting creates such a shortage of food within its walls that rats sell at enormous prices.
  • Otomo no Yakamochi, Japanese general, compiles the first Japanese poetry anthology, Man'yōshū. It contains some 500 poems by Japanese poets who include the emperor, noblemen and commoners.
  • December 24 – Tang dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, where he is hosted by fellow poet Pei Di.

By topic

Religion

  • The Tōshōdai-ji Buddhist Temple is founded in Nara, Japan.

Births

  • Alfonso II, king of Asturias (d. 842)
  • Asad ibn al-Furat, Muslim jurist and theologian (d. 828)
  • Gregory of Khandzta, Georgian archimandrite (d. 861)
  • Quan Deyu, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (d. 818)
  • Theodore the Studite, Byzantine abbot (d. 826)
  • Wang Shizhen, general of the Tang dynasty (d. 809)
  • Wu Yantong, Chinese Buddhist monk (approximate date)

Deaths

  • July 24 – Oswulf, king of Northumbria
  • Edburga, Anglo-Saxon abbess
  • Dúngal mac Amalgado, king of Brega (Ireland)
  • Othmar, Swiss abbot (approximate date)
  • Wang Wei, Chinese poet (b. 699)

References

  1. ^ Theophanes the Confessor. Chronographia, p. 431
  2. ^ Stratton, J.M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.