746

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Arab–Byzantine Wars: Taking advantage of discontent among the Muslim Arabs, Emperor Constantine V invades Syria, and captures Germanikeia. He organises the resettlement of part of the local Christian population in Thrace.
• Arab–Byzantine Wars: The Byzantine navy scores a crushing victory over the Umayyad Egyptian fleet at the Battle of Keramaia.

  Europe

• Council of Cannstatt: Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, convenes an assembly of the Alemanni nobility at Cannstatt, and has most of the magnates, numbering in the thousands, arrested and executed for high treason. This ends the independence of the tribal duchy of Alamannia, which is thereafter governed by counts or dukes appointed by their Frankish overlords.
• King Ratchis codifies the Lombard laws, promulgated in Latin, and advised by his council and the Lombard army.

  Britain

• King Saelred of Essex dies after a 37-year reign. He is succeeded by Swithred, grandson of the late king Sigeheard. Like his predecessors, he is not an independent ruler, but a sub-king of Mercia.

  Unmayyad Caliphate

• August or September - Battle of Kafartuta: Caliph Marwan II defeats and kills Al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Shaybani, leader of the Kharijites, in Upper Mesopotamia. The rebels withdraw across the River Tigris, escaping destruction.

  Asia

• The Hida-Kokubunji Temple in Japan is built to pray for peace and prosperity.
• Jayshikhari Chavda establishes the Chavda Dynasty in Gujarat.

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Religion

• Guru Rinpoche, Indian saint, travels to Bhutan, to cure the king of Bumthang.
• The Benedictine Tegernsee Abbey begins brewing its own beer.