AD 767

"767 (year)" redirects here. For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 767 BC.

Year 767 (DCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 767th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 767th year of the 1st millennium, the 67th year of the 8th century, and the 8th year of the 760s decade. The denomination 767 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.

767 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	767 DCCLXVII
Ab urbe condita	1520
Armenian calendar	216 ԹՎ ՄԺԶ
Assyrian calendar	5517
Balinese saka calendar	688–689
Bengali calendar	173–174
Berber calendar	1717
Buddhist calendar	1311
Burmese calendar	129
Byzantine calendar	6275–6276
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3464 or 3257     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3465 or 3258
Coptic calendar	483–484
Discordian calendar	1933
Ethiopian calendar	759–760
Hebrew calendar	4527–4528
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	823–824
- Shaka Samvat	688–689
- Kali Yuga	3867–3868
Holocene calendar	10767
Iranian calendar	145–146
Islamic calendar	149–150
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō-jingo 3 / Jingo-keiun 1 (神護景雲元年)
Javanese calendar	661–662
Julian calendar	767 DCCLXVII
Korean calendar	3100
Minguo calendar	1145 before ROC 民前1145年
Nanakshahi calendar	−701
Seleucid era	1078/1079 AG
Thai solar calendar	1309–1310
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Horse) 893 or 512 or −260     — to — མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Sheep) 894 or 513 or −259

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Byzantine–Bulgarian War: Emperor Constantine V invades Bulgaria across the Balkan Mountains, setting afire some settlements around the Bulgarian capital of Pliska. Constantine accepts a peace agreement with Pagan, the Bulgar ruler (khagan), whose land is in anarchy.^[1]

Europe

• The Franks, under King Pepin III ("the Short"), destroy resistance in central Aquitaine. They conquer the capital of Bordeaux, and devastate the whole region.
• Pepin III receives a Byzantine delegation at his court in Gentilly (southern suburbs of Paris). They discuss foreign policy regarding Italy, and Byzantine Iconoclasm.

Africa

• The Kharijite Berbers of Tlemcen and Tiaret try to conquer Ifriqiya from the Abbasid Caliphate, but fail to capture the capital of Kairouan (modern Tunisia).

By topic

Religion

• June 28 – Pope Paul I dies at Rome after a 10-year reign, in which he has protested against Constantine V's revival of Iconoclasm at Constantinople. He gives refuge to Greek monks who were expelled from the Byzantine Empire, and moves the relics of many saints from the catacombs to Roman churches. Duke Toto of Nepi has his layman brother elected to succeed Paul, under the name Constantine II.

Births

• September 15 – Saichō, Japanese Buddhist monk (d. 822)
• Bishr al-Hafi, Muslim theologian (approximate date)
• Ja'far ibn Yahya, Persian vizier (d. 803)
• Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi`i, Muslim imam (d. 820)
• Pepin the Hunchback, son of Charlemagne (approximate date)

Deaths

• April 20 – Taichō, Japanese Buddhist monk (b. 682)
• June 28 – Paul I, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 700)
• Abū Hanīfa, Muslim imam and scholar (b. 699)
• Aedh Ailghin, king of Uí Maine (Ireland)
• Constantine II, patriarch of Constantinople
• Ibn Ishaq, Muslim historian and hagiographer (or 761)
• Ibn Jurayj, Muslim scholar (approximate date)
• Muqatil ibn Sulayman, Muslim mufassir and theologian
• Murchad mac Flaithbertaig, chief of the Cenél Conaill
• Toktu, ruler (khagan) of the Bulgarian Empire