735

By place

Europe

• Charles Martel, Merovingian mayor of the palace, invades Burgundy. Duke Hunald I of Aquitaine refuses to recognise the authority of the Franks, whereupon Charles marches south of the River Loire, seizing the cities of Bordeaux and Blaye. Within 4 years he will have subdued all the Burgundian chieftains, while continuing to fight off Moorish advances into Gaul.
• King Liutprand of the Lombards raises his nephew Hildeprand to co-kingship, after a serious illness.
• Setge d'al-Sakhra: Moors under Uqba ibn al-Hajjaj besiege Pelagius, king of Asturias, in the uppermost Northern mountain ranges in Iberia. The battle ends inconclusively, with Pelagius surviving, but 270 out of his 300 followers are killed, at least according to a Muslim chronicle from the 11th century.

  Asia

• During the Tang Dynasty in China, by this year there is 149,685,400 kg of grain shipped annually along the Grand Canal.
• A major smallpox epidemic starts in Japan, which reduces the population by 30%.

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Literature

• The Khöshöö Tsaidam Monuments of Bilge Khan, ruler of the Turkic Khaganate, and his brother Kul Tigin, are erected.

  Religion

• May 26 - Bede, Anglo-Saxon monk-historian, dies at Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey. He will be remembered as "the Venerable", and is the author of books that are copied and studied later all over Europe. His greatest book is the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, a major source for the history of Britain, in the immediate post-Roman period.
• The see of York receives the pallium from pope Gregory III, and is elevated to an archbishopric. Ecgbert becomes the first archbishop.