756 AD

Year 756 (DCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, and the 756th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations.

Events

By place

China

• The Emperor Xuanzong reorganises the government into eight Ministries: Censors, War, Rites, Personnel, Revenue, Works, Justice and Ceremonial; these Ministries will function as separate branches of bureaucracy.

Deaths

• August 16 – Gerhoh (Garosus), saintly hermit near Regensburg, Germany (b.c.710)
• October 25 – Stephen III, pope of the Catholic Church from 768–772, succeeding his son Hadrian I as pontiff (b. c.720)
• Abd ar-Rahman al-Fihri, Arab politician and governor in the Abbasid Caliphate
• Aelred de Wilton, Northumbria saint of Christianity (b. 1067 or 1070)
• Alfons II el Cast, King of Asturias from 791–842 and Grandson of Don Pelayo founder of the Kingdom of Asturias.
• Ardhamana Deva, the last independent emperor of Sri Lanka
• John of Beverley, Bishop of York and English missionary in the 6th century (approximate)
• Sperandio, or Speratus, Christian martyr under Hadrian's reign, at Vérone (c. 127).
• Theodosius I (or "the Elder"), Pope of Rome from c.759–785 (b. c.650)

Births

• Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Islamic jurist in Basra and Baghdad, Iraq
• Alcuin (Ealhun or Aelhun), Anglo-Saxon poet and theologian at Charlemagne's court, in Northumbria
• Li Kui (or Lee Gway) – Chinese writer, politician, scholar, poet during Tang Dynasty of China
• Raghu Nath Pandey (also spelt: Raigu Naathpande, Raigauna Pandy), Indian prince from Rajput family
• Şenavand, also Shenavanh, Christian hagiography writer and mystic in Iran
• Stephen II (or III), King of France from 794–810/811; son of King Louis the Debonnaire of France.

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