750

750 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	750; DCCL
Ab urbe condita	1503
Armenian calendar	199; ԹՎ ՃՂԹ
Assyrian calendar	5500
Balinese saka calendar	671–672
Bengali calendar	157
Berber calendar	1700
Buddhist calendar	1294
Burmese calendar	112
Byzantine calendar	6258–6259
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox); 3446 or 3386; — to —; 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger); 3447 or 3387
Coptic calendar	466–467
Discordian calendar	1916
Ethiopian calendar	742–743
Hebrew calendar	4510–4511
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	806–807
- Shaka Samvat	671–672
- Kali Yuga	3850–3851
Holocene calendar	10750
Iranian calendar	128–129
Islamic calendar	132–133
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō-shōhō 2; (天平勝宝２年)
Javanese calendar	644–645
Julian calendar	750; DCCL
Korean calendar	3083
Minguo calendar	1162 before ROC; 民前1162年
Nanakshahi calendar	−718
Seleucid era	1061/1062 AG
Thai solar calendar	1292–1293
Tibetan calendar	阴土牛年; (female Earth-Ox); 876 or 495 or −277; — to —; 阳金虎年; (male Iron-Tiger); 877 or 496 or −276

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century; 8th century ; 9th century;
Decades:	730s; 740s; 750s; 760s; 770s;
Years:	747; 748; 749; 750; 751; 752; 753;

Year 750 (DCCL) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 750 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.

Map of the Great Zab river (Northern Iraq)

The Great Zab river near Erbil (Iraq)

Events

January 25 – Battle of the Zab: Abbasid forces under Abdallah ibn Ali defeat the Umayyads near the Great Zab River. Members of the Umayyad house are hunted down and killed. Defeated by his rivals, Caliph Marwan II flees westward to Egypt, perhaps attempting to reach Al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), where there are still significant Umayyad armies.[1]
August 6 – Marwan II is caught and killed at Faiyum by supporters of the Abbasid caliph As-Saffah. Almost the entire Umayyad Dynasty is assassinated; Prince Abd al-Rahman I escapes to Al-Andalus. The Abbasids assume control of the Islamic world and establish their first capital at Kufa.

King Alfonso I of Asturias establishes the Kingdom of Galicia, in roughly the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. The exact time this happened is contested.
The town Slaný in the Central Bohemian Region (Czech Republic) is founded at the site of a salt spring, according to one chronicle written in the sixteenth century (approximate date).

King Eadberht of Northumbria imprisons Cynewulf, bishop of Lindisfarne, at Bamburgh Castle. King Eadberht does this in order to punish the bishop for sheltering one of his enemies, Prince Offa. He then besieges Prince Offa, son of the late King Aldfrith, in Lindisfarne Priory. Almost dead from hunger, he is dragged from his sanctuary and put to death.[2]
Battle of Mugdock: The Strathclyde Britons under King Teudebur defeat Prince Talorgan of the Picts. This leads to the decline of the power of King Óengus I.[3]

Joseph Rabban, Jewish merchant chief, arrives with a group of Babylonian Jews on the Malabar Coast. He is granted the rank of prince over the Jews of Cochin, ruling a principality in Anjuvannam, near the seaport of Cranganore (approximate date).
Gopala I is proclaimed as the first ruler and founder of the Pala Empire.

Native Americans, in the area now known as the Four Corners, begin constructing and occupying pueblos.
The city of Teotihuacan (modern Mexico) is destroyed and left in ruins, its palaces burned to the ground.

Borobudur, or Barabudur (a Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, as well as the world's largest Buddhist temple, and also one of the greatest Buddhist monuments in the world) is built (approximate date).

The "Western Paradise" of Amitābha Buddha, detail of a wall painting in Cave 217, Dunhuang (China), is made during the Tang Dynasty (approximate date).

In China during the Tang Dynasty, a bargeload of tea (a medicinal herb) comes up the Grand Canal to Luoyang, from Zhejiang (approximate date).

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David Nicolle (2009). The Great Islamic Conquests 632–750 AD, p. 79. ISBN 978-1-84603-273-8.
Higham, pp. 148–149; Kirby, p. 150; York, Kings, p. 89.
Stringer, Keith (1998). Alexander, Grant (ed.). Medieval Scotland. Columbia University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-7486-1110-2.

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Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century 8th century 9th century
Decades:	730s 740s 750s 760s 770s
Years:	747 748 749 750 751 752 753

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