756

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
756 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar756
DCCLVI
Ab urbe condita1509
Armenian calendar205
ԹՎ ՄԵ
Assyrian calendar5506
Balinese saka calendar677–678
Bengali calendar163
Berber calendar1706
Buddhist calendar1300
Burmese calendar118
Byzantine calendar6264–6265
Chinese calendar乙未年 (Wood Goat)
3453 or 3246
    — to —
丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
3454 or 3247
Coptic calendar472–473
Discordian calendar1922
Ethiopian calendar748–749
Hebrew calendar4516–4517
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat812–813
 - Shaka Samvat677–678
 - Kali Yuga3856–3857
Holocene calendar10756
Iranian calendar134–135
Islamic calendar138–139
Japanese calendarTenpyō-shōhō 8
(天平勝宝8年)
Javanese calendar650–651
Julian calendar756
DCCLVI
Korean calendar3089
Minguo calendar1156 before ROC
民前1156年
Nanakshahi calendar−712
Seleucid era1067/1068 AG
Thai solar calendar1298–1299
Tibetan calendar阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
882 or 501 or −271
    — to —
阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
883 or 502 or −270
The Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars (741–775)

Year 756 (DCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 756th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 756th year of the 1st millennium, the 56th year of the 8th century, and the 7th year of the 750s decade. The denomination 756 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

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Byzantine Empire

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Europe

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Britain

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Abbasid Caliphate

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  • Ibn al-Muqaffa', Muslim writer and thinker, is tortured at Basra (modern Iraq), on orders from Caliph al-Mansur. His limbs are severed and he is thrown, still alive, into a burning oven (approximate date).

Chinese Empire

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  • January 18[3]An Lushan Rebellion: The eastern capital of Luoyang falls to the 200,000-strong army of the rebel general An Lushan, who defeats loyalist forces under Feng Changqing. The rebels cross the Yellow River, and march on to capture the cities Chenliu and Yingyang (modern Zhengzhou, Henan).
  • Battle of Yongqiu: A Tang garrison (2,000 men), under Zhang Xun, successfully defend their fortress against the rebel army at Yongqiu. Zhang achieves a victory after a 4-month siege, and prevents the rebels from capturing the fertile Tang territory south of the Huai River.
  • February 5 – An Lushan declares himself emperor at Luoyang, establishing a new empire, called the Great Yan. He pushes on towards the primary Tang capital at Chang'an (now Xi'an). An decides to seize southern China, to cut off loyalist reinforcements. Meanwhile, numerous soldiers join the rebellion.
  • May – Emperor Xuan Zong hires 4,000 Muslim mercenaries to help defend Chang'an against the rebels. Loyalist forces take defensible positions in the mountain passes, but chancellor Yang Guozhong gives orders for them to leave their posts.
  • July 7[4][note 1]– An Lushan crushes the Tang troops at the Tong Pass, leaving the road to the capital wide open.
  • July 14 – Xuan Zong flees the capital of Chang'an (along with the imperial court) for Sichuan, as rebel forces advance through the Tongguan Pass toward the city. Meanwhile, An Lushan is ailing, perhaps with diabetes. He is nearly blind and suffers from extreme irascibility.
  • July 15 – Xuan Zong is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute Yang Guozhong, by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. He permits his consort Yang Guifei to be strangled by his chief eunuch. An Lushan also has other members of the emperor's family killed.
  • August 12 – Xuan Zong abdicates the throne after a 44-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Su Zong, as emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He hires 22,000 Muslim mercenaries to reinforce his decimated army at Lingzhou.
  • November 19[7] – Tang General Fang Guan is defeated at Xianyang. The imperial forces consisted of two thousand oxcarts with cavalry and foot soldiers on two fronts, but the rebels took advantage of their upwind position and attacked with fire. Imperial forces killed or wounded numbered more than 40,000 men.

Japan

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Births

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Deaths

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Notes

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  1. ^ Others date it on July 9[5][6]

References

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  1. ^ Runciman S., A History of the First Bulgarian Empire, London G.Bell & Sons, 1930, pp. 37, 289.
  2. ^ Lawler, Jennifer (May 20, 2015). Encyclopedia of the Byzantine Empire. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-0929-4.
  3. ^ Ju-n̂eng Yao, Robert baron Des Rotours (1962). Histoire de Ngan Lou-chan. p. 26.
  4. ^ Graff, David. Fang Guan's Chariots: Scholarship, War, and Character Assassination in the MiddleTang (PDF). p. 1.
  5. ^ Charles D. Benn Daily life in traditional China : the Tang dynasty Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002 ISBN 978-0-313-30955-7
  6. ^ Ju-n̂eng Yao, Robert baron Des Rotours (1962). Histoire de Ngan Lou-chan. p. 26.
  7. ^ Graff, David. Fang Guan's Chariots: Scholarship, War, and Character Assassination in the MiddleTang (PDF). p. 2.
  8. ^ Palmer, Andrew (1990). Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Tur Abdin. Cambridge University Press. p. 192. Retrieved July 15, 2020.