749

This page relates to the year 749 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Famine in Spain (749 - 750).
Emigration of Spanish Christians towards the the Pyrenees and the Languedoc.
Pépin the Brief subjects the Saxony.
Pip the Brief wife Berthe with the Large Feet.
June: Aistolf, king of the Lombards. Lombards take again their conquering policy.
Gorazd, duke of Carantanie (749 - 751).

November 28th: Abû Al-Abbas is proclaimed caliph with Kufa.
Demolished of the Persan prophet Bihafarid with the Khorasan.

the Iran completely passed under the domination of the Arab but the minor nobility of the dekhans guard her social and economic importance. Islam gradually replaces the zoroastrism by tinting mystical and dualistic influences. The language and the Iranian culture resist and start to influence the conquerors.

the king of the Tokharestan (Balkh) request assistance with the Chinese against the Tibetans. Kao His-tche crosses again the Pamir (750) to restore the order.
the rajah of the Cashmere and the shah of Hapiça (Kabul) ask for the alliance of the China.
Fine of the reign of the emperor Shōmu. Kōken, his/her daughter, becomes empress of the Japan.

Births in 749

Leon IV Khazar, Byzantine Emperor.

Death in 749

December 5th: Holy Jean of Damas, defender of the icon S.

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