766

This article is about the year 766. For the number, see 766 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	730s  740s  750s  – 760s –  770s  780s  790s
Years:	763 764 765 – 766 – 767 768 769

766 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

766 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	766 DCCLXVI
Ab urbe condita	1519
Armenian calendar	215 ԹՎ ՄԺԵ
Assyrian calendar	5516
Bengali calendar	173
Berber calendar	1716
Buddhist calendar	1310
Burmese calendar	128
Byzantine calendar	6274–6275
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3462 or 3402     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3463 or 3403
Coptic calendar	482–483
Discordian calendar	1932
Ethiopian calendar	758–759
Hebrew calendar	4526–4527
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	822–823
- Shaka Samvat	688–689
- Kali Yuga	3867–3868
Holocene calendar	10766
Iranian calendar	144–145
Islamic calendar	148–149
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō-jingo 2 (天平神護２年)
Julian calendar	766 DCCLXVI
Korean calendar	3099
Minguo calendar	1146 before ROC 民前1146年
Seleucid era	1077/1078 AG
Thai solar calendar	1308–1309

The "Round City" of Baghdad

Year 766 (DCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 766 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• August 25 – Emperor Constantine V publicly humiliates 19 high-ranking officials in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, after discovering a plot against him. He executes the leaders, Constantine Podopagouros and his brother Strategios, and blinding and exiling the rest.
• Autumn – Siege of Kamacha: Abbasid forces under Al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba are defeated at the fortress city of Kamacha in eastern Cappadocia (modern Turkey). A Byzantine relief army (12,000 men) forces the Muslim Arabs to retreat into Armenia.
• Sabin, ruler (khagan) of Bulgaria, flees to the Byzantine fortress city of Mesembria, from where he escapes to Constantinople. Constantine V arranges for the transfer of Sabin's family from Bulgaria who goes in exile.

Arabian Empire

• Baghdad nears completion as 100,000 laborers create a circle city about 2 km in diameter, leading it to be known as the "Round City". In the center is a palace build for caliph Al-Mansur, the capital is ringed by three lines of walls (approximate date).

Asia

• The Karluks, defeat the Turgesh Khaganate in Central Asia. Most of Turkestan (former Onoq territory) under Karluk rule except west of Lake Aral where a loose confederation named Oghuz Turks is about to emerge.

By topic

Religion

• Summer – Patriarch Constantine II is deposed and jailed after the discovery of Constantine Podopagouros' plot against Constantine V. Nicetas I is appointed patriarch of Constantinople.
• Metten Abbey near the town of Deggendorf (Bavaria) is founded by Gamelbert of Michaelsbuch.

Births

• Al-Fadl ibn Yahya al-Barmaki, Muslim governor (d. 808)
• Harun al-Rashid, Muslim caliph (or 763)

Deaths

• Abdullah al-Aftah, Shī‘ah Imam and Muslim scholar
• March 6 – Chrodegang of Metz, Frankish bishop
• August 25 – Constantine Podopagouros, Byzantine official
• Fallomon mac Con Congalt, king of Mide (Ireland)
• Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Khuza'i, Muslim governor
• August 25 – Strategios Podopagouros, Byzantine general