Years: 740 741 742 743 - 744 - 745 746 747 748

Decades: 710s 720s 730s - 740s - 750s 760s 770s

Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century

Events

• February - Hildeprand succeeds Liutprand as king of the Lombards.
• 3 March - Abel becomes archbishop of Reims.
• October - Ratchis succeeds Hildeprand as king of the Lombards.
• Umayyad caliph al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik succeeded by Yazid III ibn Abd al-Malik, Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Malik, and Marwan II.
• Theophylact succeeds Stephen IV as Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.
• Saint Sturm establishes the monastery of Fulda. (or 742?)
• Salih ibn Tarif proclaims himself a prophet among the Berghouata of Morocco.
• Chinese poet Li Po meets Du Fu for the first time.
• Synod of Soissons meets at the instigation of Pippin, and Boniface, the Pope's missionary to pagan Germany, secures the condemnation of Frankish bishop Adalbert and Irish missionary Clement.

Births

• Redburga, queen of Egbert of Wessex

Deaths

• February - Liutprand , king of the Lombards
• April 16 - al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph
• Stephen IV, Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (b. 720)