751

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Events

By Place

Europe

* Pepin 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.

Asia

* Arabian armies defeat Chinese Tang troops in the Battle of Talas near Samarkand.
* The Japanese poetry anthology "Kaifūsō" is assembled.
* Like the storm of 721, the storm of this year at the southern Chinese seaport of Yangzhou reportedly destroys over 1,000 ships engaged in canal and river traffic.

By Topic

Religion

* The oldest surviving printed document, a Buddhist scripture, is printed in Korea.
* Theodore succeeds Theophylact as Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.
* Silla minister Gim Daeseong orders construction to begin on the Bulguksa and Seokguram temples at Gyeongju.

Births

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

Deaths

* Childeric III, Merovingian king of the Franks who was deposed by Pepin the Short