745

Calendar year

Millennium:  | 1st millennium

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Centuries:  |

* 7th century
* 8th century
* 9th century

Decades:  |

* 720s
* 730s
* 740s
* 750s
* 760s

Years:  |

* 742
* 743
* 744
* 745
* 746
* 747
* 748

745 by topic

Leaders

* Political entities
* State leaders
* Religious leaders

Categories

* Births
* Deaths
* Establishments

745 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 745
DCCXLV

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Ab urbe condita| 1498
Armenian calendar| 194
ԹՎ ՃՂԴ
Assyrian calendar| 5495
Balinese saka calendar| 666–667
Bengali calendar| 152
Berber calendar| 1695
Buddhist calendar| 1289
Burmese calendar| 107
Byzantine calendar| 6253–6254
Chinese calendar| 甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
3442 or 3235
— to —
乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
3443 or 3236
Coptic calendar| 461–462
Discordian calendar| 1911
Ethiopian calendar| 737–738
Hebrew calendar| 4505–4506
Hindu calendars|
\- Vikram Samvat| 801–802
\- Shaka Samvat| 666–667
\- Kali Yuga| 3845–3846
Holocene calendar| 10745
Iranian calendar| 123–124
Islamic calendar| 127–128
Japanese calendar| Tenpyō 17
(天平１７年)
Javanese calendar| 639–640
Julian calendar| 745
DCCXLV
Korean calendar| 3078
Minguo calendar| 1167 before ROC
民前1167年
Nanakshahi calendar| −723
Seleucid era| 1056/1057 AG
Thai solar calendar| 1287–1288
Tibetan calendar| 阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
871 or 490 or −282
— to —
阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
872 or 491 or −281
Map of the Turkish Empire (8th century)

Year 745 (DCCXLV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 745 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

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### By place

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#### Byzantine Empire

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* Bubonic plague in Asia Minor kills 1/3 of the population, and subsequently sweeps through the Peloponnese (Balkan Peninsula) (approximate date).

#### Europe

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* Hunald I, duke of Aquitaine, retires to a monastery, probably on Île de Ré.[1] He is succeeded by his son Waifar, who struggles during his rule for independence against the Frankish Kingdom.
* Carantania (modern Austria) loses its independence and becomes part of the Frankish Kingdom, due to the pressing danger posed by Avar tribes from the east (approximate date).

#### Asia

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* China has accomplishments in poetry, painting and printing, but its monarchical system tends toward failure. Emperor Xuan Zong has fallen under the spell of his son's wife Yang Guifei (one of the Four Beauties of Ancient China), a Taoist priestess. He is ignoring the economy and the Tang dynasty is declining.
* The newly founded Uyghur Empire controls most of the former Turkic Empire territory, creating an empire that extends from Lake Balkash (modern Kazakhstan) to Lake Baikal (Mongolia), and is subject to Chinese suzerainty (approximate date).

### By topic

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#### Religion

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* Genbō, Japanese scholar-monk, is exiled to Dazaifu on the island of Kyushu.[2]

## Births

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* Idris I, emir and founder of the Idrisid dynasty (d. 791)
* Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi, Muslim caliph (or 744)
* Musa al-Kadhim, seventh Twelver Shī‘ah imām (d. 799)
* Wei Gao, general of the Tang dynasty (d. 805)
* Willehad, bishop of Bremen (approximate date)
* Yaoshan Weiyan, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 827)
* Zhang Jianfeng, statesman of the Tang dynasty (d. 800)

## Deaths

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* Cathal Maenmaighe, king of Uí Maine (Ireland)
* Daniel, bishop of Winchester
* Herlindis of Maaseik, Frankish abbess (or 753)
* Ingwald, bishop of London
* Kadobe, Japanese prince
* Kulun Beg, ruler (khagan) of the Turkish Empire
* Thrasimund II, duke of Spoleto
* Wilfrid, bishop of York
* Yusuf ibn Umar al-Thaqafi, Muslim governor

## References

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1. ^ Pierre Riche, The Carolingians: A Family who forged Europe, pp. 51–52.
2. ^ Grapard, Allan G. (1992). The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History, p. 67; excerpt, "We have no information concerning Genbō's exile; the Shoku-Nihongi states simply that Genbō behaved in a manner that did not befit his ecclesiastic position and that he died in 746 as he was trying to escape."; Matsunaga, p. 125; excerpt, "...the degree of Genbō's corruption remains equivocal."