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| Years: 736 737 738 739 - 740 - 741 742 743 744 | |
| Decades: 710s 720s 730s - 740s - 750s 760s 770s | |
| Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century | |
Events
- September - The Daysan River floods Edessa.
- October 26 - An earthquake strikes Constantinople and the surrounding countryside, causing destruction to the city's land walls and buildings, and many deaths.
- End of the reign of king Sevar and thus of the House of Dulo in Bulgaria.
- St. Cuthbert becomes archbishop of Canterbury.
- Pippin III marries Bertrada of Laon.
- The Khazars, a nation of the Black Sea steppe, though not ethnically Jewish, voluntarily convert to Judaism
- Battle of Akroinon - Byzantine forces defeat Arab invaders of Asia Minor.
Births
Deaths
- Saint Æthelwald, Bishop of Lindisfarne
- Zhang Jiuling, ex-Chancellor of Tang China (b. 678)
- Zayd ibn Ali, Fifth Zaidi Shia Imam, killed in a Shi'ite revolt in Kufa.
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