759

This article is about the year 759. For the number, see 759 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	720s  730s  740s  – 750s –  760s  770s  780s
Years:	756 757 758 – 759 – 760 761 762

759 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

759 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	759 DCCLIX
Ab urbe condita	1512
Armenian calendar	208 ԹՎ ՄԸ
Assyrian calendar	5509
Bengali calendar	166
Berber calendar	1709
Buddhist calendar	1303
Burmese calendar	121
Byzantine calendar	6267–6268
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3455 or 3395     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3456 or 3396
Coptic calendar	475–476
Discordian calendar	1925
Ethiopian calendar	751–752
Hebrew calendar	4519–4520
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	815–816
- Shaka Samvat	681–682
- Kali Yuga	3860–3861
Holocene calendar	10759
Iranian calendar	137–138
Islamic calendar	141–142
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō-hōji 3 (天平宝字３年)
Julian calendar	759 DCCLIX
Korean calendar	3092
Minguo calendar	1153 before ROC 民前1153年
Seleucid era	1070/1071 AG
Thai solar calendar	1301–1302

Muslim troops leaving Narbonne to Pepin III

Year 759 (DCCLIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 759 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

Byzantine Empire

• Battle of the Rishki Pass: Emperor Constantine V invades Thrace again, but his forces are ambushed and defeated while crossing the Rishki Pass, near Stara Planina (modern Bulgaria). In response Vinekh, ruler (khagan) of the Bulgarian Empire, did not exploit his success and starts peace negotiations.

Europe

• Siege of Narbonne: The Franks under king Pepin III ("the Short") retake Narbonne from the Muslims after a 7-year siege. He pushes them back across the Pyrenees and the Muslims retreat to the Andalusian heartland after 40 years of occupation. The government of the city is assigned to the Visigothic count Miló.

Britain

• July 24 – King Oswulf of Northumbria is murdered by members of his own household (his servants or bodyguards), at Market Weighton. The Deiran patrician, Æthelwald Moll, who probably conspired in the regicide, is crowned king of Norhumbria. He may have been a descendant of the late king Oswine of Deira.
• Exceptional winter in England. Frost begins October 1 and ends February 26 760.

Arabian Empire

• Caliph Al-Mansur of the Abbasid Caliphate launches the conquest of Tabaristan (on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea). Its ruler, Khurshid II, flees into the mountains to the fortress city of Daylam.

Asia

• An Lushan Rebellion: Tang forces under Guo Ziyi lay siege to the city of Yanjing (Northern China) as they increase their efforts to end the rebellion. The fightings create such a shortage of food within its walls that rats sell at enormous prices.
• Otomo no Yakamochi, Japanese general, compiles the first Japanese poetry anthology, Man'yōshū. It contains some 500 poems by Japanese poets who include the emperor, nobleman and commoners.
• December 24 – Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, where he is hosted by fellow poet Pei Di.

By topic

Religion

• Bregwin is appointed archbishop of Canterbury (approximate date).
• The Tōshōdai-ji Buddhist Temple is founded in Nara, Japan.

Births

• Alfonso II, king of Asturias (d. 842)
• Asad ibn al-Furat, Muslim jurist and theologian (d. 828)
• Quan Deyu, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 818)
• Theodore the Studite, Byzantine abbot (d. 826)
• Wang Shizhen, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 809)

Deaths

• Edburga, Anglo-Saxon abbess
• Dúngal mac Amalgado, king of Brega (Ireland)
• July 24 – Oswulf, king of Northumbria
• Othmar, Swiss abbot (approximate date)
• Wang Wei, Chinese poet (b. 699)