745
Year 745 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 745 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
- Bubonic plague in Asia Minor kills 1/3 of the population, and subsequently sweeps through the Peloponnese .
Europe
- Hunald I, duke of Aquitaine, retires to a monastery, probably on Île de Ré. He is succeeded by his son Waifar, who struggles during his rule for independence against the Frankish Kingdom.
- Carantania loses its independence and becomes part of the Frankish Kingdom, due to the pressing danger posed by Avar tribes from the east.
Asia
- China has accomplishments in poetry, painting and printing, but its monarchical system tends toward failure. Emperor Xuan Zong has fallen under the spell of his son's wife Yang Guifei, a Taoist priestess. He is ignoring the economy and the Tang Dynasty is declining.
- The newly founded Uyghur Empire controls most of the former Turkish Empire territory, creating an empire that extends from Lake Balkash to Lake Baikal, and is subject to Chinese suzerainty.
By topic
Religion
Births
- Idris I, emir and founder of the Idrisid Dynasty
- Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi, Muslim caliph
- Musa al-Kadhim, seventh Twelver Shī‘ah imām
- Wei Gao, general of the Tang Dynasty
- Willehad, bishop of Bremen
- Yaoshan Weiyan, Chinese Buddhist monk
- Zhang Jianfeng, statesman of the Tang Dynasty
Deaths
- Cathal Maenmaighe, king of Uí Maine
- Daniel, bishop of Winchester
- Herlindis of Maaseik, Frankish abbess
- Ingwald, bishop of London
- Kadobe, Japanese prince
- Kulun Beg, ruler of the Turkish Empire
- Thrasimund II, duke of Spoleto
- Wilfrid, bishop of York
- Yusuf ibn Umar al-Thaqafi, Muslim governor
