740
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| Years: 736 737 738 739 - 740 - 741 742 743 744 |
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| Decades: 710s 720s 730s - 740s - 750s 760s 770s |
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| Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century |
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| 740 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 740 DCCXL |
| Ab urbe condita | 1493 |
| Armenian calendar | 189 ԹՎ ՃՁԹ |
| Chinese calendar | 3376/3436-11-28 (己卯年十一月廿八日) — to —
3377/3437-12-9(庚辰年十二月初九日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 732 – 733 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4500 – 4501 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 795 – 796 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 662 – 663 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3841 – 3842 |
| Iranian calendar | 118 – 119 |
| Islamic calendar | 122 – 123 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 1400 (皇紀1400年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 10740 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1283 |
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[edit] Events
- September - The Daysan River floods Edessa.
- October 26 - An earthquake strikes Constantinople and the surrounding countryside, causing destruction to the city's land walls and buildings, and many deaths.
- End of the reign of king Sevar and thus of the House of Dulo in Bulgaria.
- St. Cuthbert becomes archbishop of Canterbury.
- Pippin III marries Bertrada of Laon.
- The Khazars, a nation of the Black Sea steppe, though not ethnically Jewish, voluntarily convert to Judaism
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Saint Æthelwald, Bishop of Lindisfarne
- Zhang Jiuling, ex-Chancellor of Tang China (b. 678)
- Zayd ibn Ali, Fifth Zaidi Shia Imam, killed in a Shi'ite revolt in Kufa.
[edit] Other
- Intel 740, video graphics chipset.
