749

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	710s  720s  730s  – 740s –  750s  760s  770s
Years:	746 747 748 – 749 – 750 751 752

749 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

749 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	749 DCCXLIX
Ab urbe condita	1502
Armenian calendar	198 ԹՎ ՃՂԸ
Assyrian calendar	5499
Bengali calendar	156
Berber calendar	1699
Buddhist calendar	1293
Burmese calendar	111
Byzantine calendar	6257–6258
Chinese calendar	戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3445 or 3385     — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3446 or 3386
Coptic calendar	465–466
Discordian calendar	1915
Ethiopian calendar	741–742
Hebrew calendar	4509–4510
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	805–806
- Shaka Samvat	671–672
- Kali Yuga	3850–3851
Holocene calendar	10749
Iranian calendar	127–128
Islamic calendar	131–132
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō 21 / Tenpyō-kanpō 1 (天平感宝元年)
Julian calendar	749 DCCXLIX
Korean calendar	3082
Minguo calendar	1163 before ROC 民前1163年
Seleucid era	1060/1061 AG
Thai solar calendar	1291–1292

King Aistulf of the Lombards

Year 749 (DCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 749 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 Ratchis of the Lombards besieges Perugia; convinced to lift the siege by pope Zachary, he is forced to retire with his family to the monastery at Monte Cassino.
• June – Aistulf succeeds his brother, Ratchis, as king of the Lombards and marries Gisaltruda, sister of Anselm, duke of Friuli.

Britain

• King Ælfwald of East Anglia dies after a 36-year reign. He is succeeded by Beonna, Æthelberht I and possibly Hun. Relationship unknown. Beonna emerges as the dominant monarch.
• King Æthelbald of Mercia calls the Synod of Gumley, at the instigation of Boniface, bishop of Mainz, and issues a charter that releases the Catholic Church from all public burdens.

Arabian Empire

• Abbasid Revolution: Muslim forces under Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i defeat a large Umayyad army (50,000 men) at Isfahan and invade Iraq, taking the city of Kufa.
• Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad prince, is executed by crucifixion on orders of the first Abbasid caliph, Abdullah ibn Muhammad, at Al-Hirah (or 750).
• October 28 – Abdullah ibn Muhammad is proclaimed caliph at Kufa by his supporters and adopts the title of al-Saffah (the "Slaughterer of Blood").^[1]

Japan

• August 19 – Emperor Shōmu abdicates the throne after a 25-year reign that has been dominated by his wife (and aunt), Kōmyō, a commoner he married at age 16. He is succeeded by his daughter Kōken, Shōmu becomes the first retired emperor to become a Buddhist priest.^[2]

By topic

Catastrophe

• January 18 – Galilee earthquake: Palestine and eastern Transjordan are devastated by a earthquake. The cities of Tiberias, Beit She'an, Hippos and Pella are largely destroyed.

Births

• Muhammad al-Shaybani, Muslim jurist (approximate date)

Deaths

• Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad prince (or 750)
• Ælfwald, king of East Anglia
• Ailello hui Daimine, king of Uí Maine (Ireland)
• Gyōki, Japanese Buddhist priest (b. 668)
• December 4 – John of Damascus, Syrian monk and priest
• August 27 – Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i, Muslim general

References

1. David Nicolle (2009). The Great Islamic Conquests 632–750 AD, p. 78. ISBN 978-1-84603-273-8
2. Varley, H. Paul (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04940-4