752

This article is about the year 752. For the number, see 752 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	720s  730s  740s  – 750s –  760s  770s  780s
Years:	749 750 751 – 752 – 753 754 755

752 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

752 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	752 DCCLII
Ab urbe condita	1505
Armenian calendar	201 ԹՎ ՄԱ
Assyrian calendar	5502
Bengali calendar	159
Berber calendar	1702
Buddhist calendar	1296
Burmese calendar	114
Byzantine calendar	6260–6261
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3448 or 3388     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3449 or 3389
Coptic calendar	468–469
Discordian calendar	1918
Ethiopian calendar	744–745
Hebrew calendar	4512–4513
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	808–809
- Shaka Samvat	674–675
- Kali Yuga	3853–3854
Holocene calendar	10752
Iranian calendar	130–131
Islamic calendar	134–135
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō-shōhō 4 (天平勝宝４年)
Julian calendar	752 DCCLII
Korean calendar	3085
Minguo calendar	1160 before ROC 民前1160年
Seleucid era	1063/1064 AG
Thai solar calendar	1294–1295

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Pope Stephen II (752–757)

Year 752 (DCCLII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 752 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 Pepin III (the Short) begins a Frankish military expedition down the Rhône valley and receives the submission of eastern Septimania (i.e. Nîmes, Melguelh, Agde and Béziers) after securing count Ansemund's allegiance.
• Siege of Narbonne: Pepin III lays siege to the fortress city of Narbonne, occupied by Gothic-Muslim forces. The garrison and residents are able to withstand the attacks thanks to the supplies provided by sea by the Arab fleet.

Britain

• Battle of Burford: King Cuthred of Wessex clashes with king Æthelbald of Mercia and takes the standard (a golden dragon). He manages to throw off his claim to Mercian overlordship.
• Death of king Teudebur of Alt Clut. His son, Dumnagual III, succeeds to the throne and loses Kyle to an invasion by both kings Óengus I of the Picts and Eadberht of Northumbria.

Africa

• Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri, ruler of Ifriqiya (North Africa), dispatches a Muslim army and reconquers Tripolitania from the Ibadites (a puritanical Khaijite sect), driving their remnants south into the Nafusa Mountains (northwestern Libya).
• First Muslim assault on Sardinia under Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri, perhaps the beginning of the occupation of the island by the Muslim Arabs that lasts until 1005. He also attempts to invade Sicily, but finding the defenses too strong.

Mesoamerica

• Yaxun B'alam IV becomes king (ajaw) of the Maya city of Yaxchilan (modern Mexico) after a 10-year struggle for the throne.

By topic

Religion

• March 22 – Pope Zachary dies at Rome after a 11-year reign. He is succeeded by Stephen, but dies four days after and is not considered legitimate because he is not consecrated.
• March 26 – Pope Stephen II (sometimes referred to as Stephen III) succeeds Zachary as the 92nd pope of the Catholic Church. He marks the ending of the Byzantine Papacy.
• June – Stephen II recognizes the Carolingian Dynasty as legitimate rulers of the Frankish Kingdom. He travels to Paris and appeals for Frankish support against the Lombards.
• Emperor Shōmu (retired since 749) takes part in the dedication ceremony of the Great Buddha (15 metres) at Tōdai-ji in Nara (Japan), and declares himself a Buddhist.

Births

• Irene of Athens, Byzantine empress (approximate date)
• Zheng Yin, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 829)

Deaths

• Lupus, duke of Spoleto (Italy)
• March 26 – Pope-elect Stephen
• March 22 – Pope Zachary
• Teudebur, king of Alt Clut (Scotland)