750s

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century; 8th century; 9th century;
Decades:	730s; 740s; 750s; 760s; 770s;
Years:	750; 751; 752; 753; 754; 755; 756; 757; 758; 759;
Categories:	Births; Deaths; Establishments; Disestablishments;

The 750s decade ran from January 1, 750, to December 31, 759.

Events

750

By place

Umayyad Caliphate

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.

Europe

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).

Britain

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]

Africa

The Ghana Empire begins (approximate date).

India

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.

America

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.

Indonesia

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).

By topic

Art

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

Food and drink

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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Significant people

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gollark: It's the 18th anniversary of it, yes.

gollark: No, it's the 9/11 terrorist attack he seems to not want to refer to by name.

gollark: Massively insane overreaction to terrorist attacks has *not only* resulted in significantly curtailed freedoms (border control, interwebbernet monitoring/heightened surveillance generally, airports, etc.) but also sucked horrendous amounts of resources which probably could have been used to help with that.

gollark: Meanwhile there's more than *one death per second* worldwide.

gollark: I mean, in the past, let's say two decades, terrorist attacks have killed maybe a few thousand people (EDIT: in otherwise reasonably stable Western countries).

References

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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[1] David Nicolle (2009). The Great Islamic Conquests 632–750 AD, p. 79. ISBN 978-1-84603-273-8.

[2] Higham, pp. 148–149; Kirby, p. 150; York, Kings, p. 89.

[3] Stringer, Keith (1998). Alexander, Grant (ed.). Medieval Scotland. Columbia University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-7486-1110-2.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century 8th century 9th century
Decades:	730s 740s 750s 760s 770s
Years:	750 751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 759
Categories:	Births Deaths Establishments Disestablishments