751

[edit] Events

[edit] By Place

[edit] Europe

• Pepin the Short is elected as king of the Franks by the Frankish nobility, marking the end of the Merovingian and beginning of the Carolingian dynasty.
• The Lombard king Aistulf captures Ravenna and the Romagna, ending the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna.

[edit] Asia

• Arabian armies defeat Chinese Tang troops in the Battle of Talas near Samarkand.
• The Japanese poetry anthology Kaifūsō is assembled.
• Like the storm of 721, the storm of this year at the southern Chinese seaport of Yangzhou reportedly destroys over 1,000 ships engaged in canal and river traffic.

[edit] By Topic

[edit] Religion

• The oldest surviving printed document, a Buddhist scripture, is printed in Korea.
• Theodore succeeds Theophylact as Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.
• Silla minister Gim Daeseong orders construction to begin on the Bulguksa and Seokguram temples at Gyeongju.

[edit] Births

• Carloman, king of the Franks (d. 771)

[edit] Deaths

• Childeric III, Merovingian king of the Franks who was deposed by Pepin the Short