750

By place

Umayyad Caliphate

• January 25 - Battle of the Zab: Abbasid forces under Abdallah ibn Ali defeat the Umayyads near the Great Zab River. Members of the Umayyad house are hunted down and killed. Defeated by his rivals, Caliph Marwan II flees westward to Egypt, perhaps attempting to reach Al-Andalus, where there are still significant Umayyad armies.
• August 6 - Marwan II is caught and killed at Faiyum by supporters of the Abbasid caliph As-Saffah. Almost the entire Umayyad Dynasty is assassinated; Prince Abd al-Rahman I escapes to Al-Andalus. The Abbasids assume control of the Islamic world and establish their first capital at Kufa.

  Europe

• King Alfonso I of Asturias establishes the Kingdom of Galicia, in roughly the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. The exact time this happened is contested.
• The town Slaný in the Central Bohemian Region is founded at the site of a salt spring, according to one chronicle written in the sixteenth century.

  Britain

• King Eadberht of Northumbria imprisons Cynewulf, bishop of Lindisfarne, at Bamburgh Castle. King Eadberht does this in order to punish the bishop for sheltering one of his enemies, Prince Offa. He then besieges Prince Offa, son of the late King Aldfrith, in Lindisfarne Priory. Almost dead from hunger, he is dragged from his sanctuary and put to death.
• Battle of Mugdock: The Strathclyde Britons under King Teudebur defeat Prince Talorgan of the Picts. This leads to the decline of the power of King Óengus I.

  Africa

• The Ghana Empire begins.

  India

• Joseph Rabban, Jewish merchant chief, arrives with a group of Babylonian Jews on the Malabar Coast. He is granted the rank of prince over the Jews of Cochin, ruling a principality in Anjuvannam, near the seaport of Cranganore.
• Gopala I is proclaimed as the first ruler and founder of the Pala Empire.

  America

• Native Americans, in the area now known as the Four Corners, begin constructing and occupying pueblos.
• The city of Teotihuacan is destroyed and left in ruins, its palaces burned to the ground.

  Indonesia

• Borobudur, or Barabudur is built.

  By topic

Art

• The "Western Paradise" of Amitābha Buddha, detail of a wall painting in Cave 217, Dunhuang, is made during the Tang Dynasty.

  Food and drink

• In China during the Tang Dynasty, a bargeload of tea comes up the Grand Canal to Luoyang, from Zhejiang.