22 de enero

This page relates to the year 762 Calendrier Julien.

Events

: Foundation of the town of Baghdad, called Madinat Al-Salam or City of Peace, by the caliph Al-Mansur.

the Syrian civils servant who spoke Greek are replaced by Iranians Arabic-speaking people. The vizier Persan Khalid the Barmakide exerts the power in the name of the caliph. The empire becomes increasingly administrative.

Revolt of the descendants of Ali Muhammad year Nafs az Zakya with Médine and of his/her Ibrahim brother to Basra and with the Khûzistân. Policy of repression against Alides.

May: With died of the emperor of China Suzong, the rebels take again Luoyang, then are driven out by it definitively by the king of the Ouïgours in November.
November 20th: Bögü, third hâkan of the Ouïgours seizes Luoyang, the capital of the Chinese Empire, and conquers the China, where it intervened with the call of the Tang.
the Ouïgours convert with the Manichéisme. The Sogdien becomes the second official language of the empire.
After the rebellion of Year Lushan, the Chinese government does not regain the control of the military commanderies established at the borders. Some become hereditary kingdoms and retain for them the taxes perceived for the central government. The system of the commanderies extends to certain areas inside the China and, at the 9th century, the State will control more really only the current province of the Shaanxi.
During the civil war in China, tax, drudgery and conscription became so heavy that the peasants had to sell their grounds to the great landowners in spite of prohibition, forming an immense agricultural proletariat with half slave.

the Francs devastate the Touraine, the the Limousin and arrive to Cahors (762 - 763).
Of the ambassadors of Pip the Brief and of the pope go to Constantinople.

May 3rd: Xuanzong (Tang)
Li Bai (Li Po), Chinese poet.
Isma' it, wire of sixth Iman Ja' far Al-Sadiq, which was disinherited by his/her father with the profit of his brother Musa Al-Kazim and considered by the Ismaïliens like 7th and last Iman.

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