754 AD

Year 754 (DCCLIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, and the 754th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations.

Events

By place

Europe

• The Moorish commander Tariq ibn-Ziyad defeats a Spanish army under Pelayo on July 29 at Lutos (in Almeria), Spain.^{[1]}^{[2]}
• Arno Eppenstein is killed by the Frisian King Poppo near Würzburg in Bavaria,^{[3]} and he is succeeded as duke of Frisia by his son Radbod II.^{[4]}
• In this year (approximate date), St. Cuthbert's body disappears from Durham Cathedral and reappears 6 years later in Lindisfarne Priory (see Saint Cuthbert).^{[5]}

Births

• Ādi Shankara, Indian religious leader (died 820)^{[10]}^{[note 2]}
• Ahmed ibn Said al-Qasim (d. 839), Berber commander^{[6]}
• Muhammad ben Zayd (or Abi Abdallah Mohammed al-Ma'mun ben al-Abbas, or Abdulmajid the Abbaside Caliph; d. 813), Islamic ruler.^{[7]}^{[note 2]}^{[8]}^{[note 3]}

Deaths

• November – Arno Eppenstein, duke of Frisia (b. 695)^{[9]}
• Bidam, founder and abbot of Fountains Abbey^{[11]}
• Sichuan Shi (or Miao Taibo; aka Huang Chao, d. 884), Chinese general and warlord.^{[7]}^{[note 3]}
• Unhei (or Prince Kakuri), Korean crown prince under the kingdom of Silla^{[12]}

Notes

1. ^ ^{a} ^{b} Aethelburh's dates are debated as various sources state she died in either this year or 756.^{[6]}^{[7]}
2. ^ ^{a} ^{b} ^{c} In some sources Adi Sankara's death is given in the 800s, not the mid-700s^{[10]}; others place Muhammad al Ma'mun (Abbasid Caliph) as having died at an early age in this year, not circa 813.^{[16]}
3. ^ ^{a} ^{b} According to one source Sichuan Shi/Miao Taibo (or Huang Chao), Chinese warlord dies circa 756^{[12]}^{[13]} and other sources date it as early as circa 754.^{[7]}

Bibliography

• Aksamit, Piotr; Węglewski, Jacek; Gieysztor, Aleksander; Lewandowski, Tadeusz (1990). The Cambridge Illustrated History of Poland. ISBN 9780521377614.
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). This article uses material from the Wikipedia page available here. It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.