Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 751 A.D. through 760 A.D.
- 751 to 760
- In the Battle of Samarkand China loses western Asian
dominion to the Arabs (751)
- Aistulf takes Ravenna from Byzantium (751)
- Pope Zacharias acknowledges election of Pepin (751)
- Cuthred of Wessex defeats Ethelbald at Burford (752)
- Pope Stephen III journeys to Pepin to ask for protection
from the Lombards; Pepin helps with a large army and
helps in creating the Papal states (754)
- The Emperor Constantine V begins dissolution of
monasteries (754)
- Al Mansur becomes Caliph (754 - 775)
- Caliphate of Cordoba (755 - 1031) founded by Abd-al-
Rahman (755)
- War between the Byzantine Empire and the Bulgarians
(755)
- Al Mansur sends military aid to Hsuan Tsung to crush
rebellion in China anfter the Emperor Ming Huang
resigned (756)
- Pepin reduces Lombardy to vassal state (756)
- Offa, king of Mercia (757 - 796)
- Desiderius, the last king of the Lombards (757 - 774)
- The Franks get Narbonne back from the Arabs (see 720)
[759]
- Founding of Turkish Empire by a Tartar tribe in
Armenia (760)
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