750

750 (DCCL) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 750th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 750th year of the 1st millennium, the 50th year of the 8th century, and the 1st year of the 750s decade. As of the start of 750, the Gregorian calendar was 4 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

750 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	750 DCCL
Ab urbe condita	1503
Armenian calendar	199 ԹՎ ՃՂԹ
Assyrian calendar	5500
Balinese saka calendar	671–672
Bengali calendar	157
Berber calendar	1700
Buddhist calendar	1294
Burmese calendar	112
Byzantine calendar	6258–6259
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3446 or 3386     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3447 or 3387
Coptic calendar	466–467
Discordian calendar	1916
Ethiopian calendar	742–743
Hebrew calendar	4510–4511
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	806–807
- Shaka Samvat	671–672
- Kali Yuga	3850–3851
Holocene calendar	10750
Iranian calendar	128–129
Islamic calendar	132–133
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō-shōhō 2 (天平勝宝２年)
Javanese calendar	644–645
Julian calendar	750 DCCL
Korean calendar	3083
Minguo calendar	1162 before ROC 民前1162年
Nanakshahi calendar	−718
Seleucid era	1061/1062 AG
Thai solar calendar	1292–1293
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Earth-Ox) 876 or 495 or −277     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Tiger) 877 or 496 or −276

Events

By geography

Asia

• After the defeat of his army in the Battle of the Zab the last Umayyad Caliph, Marwan II, is overthrown and killed. Al-Saffah is proclaimed the first Abbasid Caliph. The capital of the Caliphate will later moved from Damascus to Baghdad, within the territory of the former Persian Empire; this transfer will prove to be a momentous event for Baghdad, which develops into a centre of international trade and culture.

Africa

• The Ghana Empire begins.

Births

for more information, see Category:750 births.