Centuries:	7th century - 8th century - 9th century
Decades:	720s  730s  740s  - 750s -  760s  770s  780s
Years:	753 754 755 - 756 - 757 758 759

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Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

756 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	756 DCCLVI
Ab urbe condita	1509
Armenian calendar	205 ԹՎ ՄԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-1088 – -1087
Berber calendar	1706
Buddhist calendar	1300
Burmese calendar	118
Byzantine calendar	6264 – 6265
Chinese calendar	乙未年十一月廿五日 (3392/3452-11-25) — to — 丙申年十二月初六日 (3393/3453-12-6)
Coptic calendar	472 – 473
Ethiopian calendar	748 – 749
Hebrew calendar	4516 – 4517
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	811 – 812
- Shaka Samvat	678 – 679
- Kali Yuga	3857 – 3858
Holocene calendar	10756
Iranian calendar	134 – 135
Islamic calendar	138 – 139
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3089
Thai solar calendar	1299
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Contents 1 Events 1.1 By Place 1.1.1 Europe 1.1.2 Asia 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

• Pepin the Short defeats the Lombards of northern Italy, who have threatened Pope Stephen II. The Donation of Pepin is a cession of lands including Ravenna that will become the basis of the Papal States.
• Abd-ar-rahman I conquers Iberia and re-establishes the Umayyad dynasty at Cordoba in modern Spain.
• Desiderius succeeds Aistulf as king of the Lombards.
• Vinekh succeeds Kormisosh as king of Bulgaria.

Asia

• The army of An Lushan captures Chang'an in rebellion against the Tang Dynasty.

Yang Guozhong is killed by the angry soldiers, Yang Guifei and most people in the family of Yang are killed.

• Emperor Suzong of Tang China ascends to the throne, after his father Emperor Xuanzong abdicates while fleeing to Sichuan during the An Lushan rebellion.
• The Tang army, led by Zhang Xun, wins the Battle of Yongqiu.

Births

Deaths

• July 15 — Yang Guozhong, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
• December — Aistulf, king of the Lombards
• Emperor Shōmu, emperor of Japan (b. 701)
• Yang Guifei, consort of Emperor Xuanzong (executed)
• Gao Xianzhi, ethnic Korean general in service of the Chinese Tang Dynasty
• Feng Changqing