761

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	730s  740s  750s  – 760s –  770s  780s  790s
Years:	758 759 760 – 761 – 762 763 764

761 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

761 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	761 DCCLXI
Ab urbe condita	1514
Armenian calendar	210 ԹՎ ՄԺ
Assyrian calendar	5511
Bengali calendar	168
Berber calendar	1711
Buddhist calendar	1305
Burmese calendar	123
Byzantine calendar	6269–6270
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3457 or 3397     — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3458 or 3398
Coptic calendar	477–478
Discordian calendar	1927
Ethiopian calendar	753–754
Hebrew calendar	4521–4522
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	817–818
- Shaka Samvat	683–684
- Kali Yuga	3862–3863
Holocene calendar	10761
Iranian calendar	139–140
Islamic calendar	143–144
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō-hōji 5 (天平宝字５年)
Julian calendar	761 DCCLXI
Korean calendar	3094
Minguo calendar	1151 before ROC 民前1151年
Seleucid era	1072/1073 AG
Thai solar calendar	1303–1304

Silver dirham of Khurshid II (734–761)

Year 761 (DCCLXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 761 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

Britain

• Battle of Eildon: King Æthelwald of Northumbria faces a rebellion under a rival claimant to the throne named Oswine. The latter is killed after a three day battle against the forces of Æthelwald in the Eildon Hills.^[1]
• Bridei V succeeds his brother Óengus I as king of the Picts (modern Scotland).^[2]

Europe

• The city of Oviedo (Northern Spain) is founded by the monks Nolan and John (approximate date).
• Construction is completed on the 108-room Castello di Lunghezza outside of Rome, Italy.

Arabian Empire

• An Abbasid Caliphate army reconquers the city of Kairouan (modern-day Tunisia) from 'Abd al-Rahmān ibn Rustam of the Rustamid Dynasty. The latter is forced west where he creates an autonomous state around Tihert (Tiaret).^[3]
• Khurshid II, the last ruler (spāhbed) of Tabaristan, poisons himself when he learns that his family has been captured by the Abbasids.^[4]

Asia

• The Japanese priest Dōkyō "cures" empress Kōken by using prayers and potions. He may have become her lover and certainly becomes her court favorite, arousing the jealousy of emperor Junnin.
• A great Chinese famine in the Huai-Yangtze area late in the year drives many people to cannibalism (approximate date).

Births

• Shun Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 806)

Deaths

• Donngal mac Laidcnén, king of the Uí Ceinnselaig (Ireland)
• December 23 – Gaubald, bishop of Regensburg
• Ibn Ishaq, Arab historian and hagiographer (or 767)
• Khurshid II, ruler (spāhbed) of Tabaristan (b. 734)
• Óengus I, king of the Picts (approximate date)
• Shi Siming, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 703)

References

1. Kirby, p. 151, states that Oswine's origins are unknown. Marsden, pp. 232–233, suggests he was a son of Eadberht. The description of Oswine as an ætheling comes from John of Worcester's chronicle.
2. Forsyth, Katherine (2000). "Evidence of a lost Pictish source in the Historia Regum Anglorum". In Taylor, Simon. Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland, 500–1297: essays in honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday. Dublin: Four Courts Press. ISBN 1-85182-516-9.
3. Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique: De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p. 25.
4. Rekaya, M. (1986). "Khurshīd". The Encyclopedia of Islam V (New ed.). Leiden; New York: Brill. pp. 68–70. ISBN 90-04-07819-3. Retrieved 2013-01-31.