Years: 747 748 749 750 - 751 - 752 753 754 755

Decades: 720s 730s 740s - 750s - 760s 770s 780s

Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century

Events

• Pippin the Short is elected as king of the Franks by the Frankish nobility, marking the end of the Merovingian and beginning of the Carolingian dynasty.
• The Lombard king Aistulf captures Ravenna and the Romagna, ending the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna.
• Arabian armies defeated Tang troops in the Battle of Talas.
• Theodore succeeds Theophylact as Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.
• Silla minister Gim Daeseong orders construction to begin on the Bulguksa and Seokguram temples at Gyeongju.
• The Japanese poetry anthology Kaifuso is assembled.

Births

• Carloman, king of the Franks (d. 771)

Deaths

• Childeric III, king of the Franks (approximate date)