755 AD

Year 755 (DCCLV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, and the 755th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Summer – Arabs capture Kastoria, Larisa, and Pydna in Thessaly.^{[2]}^{[3]} Emir Maslama bin Abd al-Malik marches on Constantinople, but is defeated by Byzantine general Eutychius near Herakleia.^{[4]}^{[5]}
• September 8 – Battle of the Marshes: Byzantines led by Artemios defeat an army of Khazars and their Turkic allies (Khasar Turks).^{[6]}
• A major revolt against Constantinople is started by Thomas the Slav, who sets up a regime in Selymbria.

Europe

• Amaury becomes abbot at Lobbes Abbey.

Significant people

Deaths

• Abu Ibrahim Muhammad ibn Abd Allah (Muslim governor of Egypt)
• Alhajji al-Sari, (Arab governor in Thessaly)^{[2]}^{[3]}
• Gervulf, mayor of the palace at Trier

Births

• Adalard of Corbie, Frankish bishop and archdeacon
• Ali ibn Isa, Kharijite rebel leader (d. 761)
• Caliph Harun al Rashid

Undated

• Laike the Monk (or Laika), Bulgarian Christian monk and saint^{[9]}
• Pope Adrian I, Italian Pope of Rome^{[8]}

In fiction

• In The Name of God's Creation is set in Constantinople during 755 AD.^{[10]}^{[11]}
• Year of the Whale: A Novel (2019) by J. F. Ditzell takes place in this year.^{[12]}

Sources

• Baldwin, Bernard Hamilton; Kienast, Christian, eds. (2016). Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. ISBN 0-19-530098-X.
• *Murray, A. H. M.; Whittow, Mark (2004). Cambridge History of Christianity: Eastern Christianity: Byzantine Christianity. ISBN 978-0521637590.*CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
• This page was last edited on 1 April 2022, at 20:21 (UTC).
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