763

763 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	763 DCCLXIII
Ab urbe condita	1516
Armenian calendar	212 ԹՎ ՄԺԲ
Assyrian calendar	5513
Balinese saka calendar	684–685
Bengali calendar	169–170
Berber calendar	1713
Buddhist calendar	1307
Burmese calendar	125
Byzantine calendar	6271–6272
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3460 or 3253     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3461 or 3254
Coptic calendar	479–480
Discordian calendar	1929
Ethiopian calendar	755–756
Hebrew calendar	4523–4524
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	819–820
- Shaka Samvat	684–685
- Kali Yuga	3863–3864
Holocene calendar	10763
Iranian calendar	141–142
Islamic calendar	145–146
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō-hōji 7 (天平宝字７年)
Javanese calendar	657–658
Julian calendar	763 DCCLXIII
Korean calendar	3096
Minguo calendar	1149 before ROC 民前1149年
Nanakshahi calendar	−705
Seleucid era	1074/1075 AG
Thai solar calendar	1305–1306
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Water-Tiger) 889 or 508 or −264     — to — ཆུ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Water-Hare) 890 or 509 or −263

Year 763 (DCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 763 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

• June – Battle of Anchialus: Emperor Constantine V sends a Byzantine expeditionary force (800 ships and 9,600 cavalry) to Thrace, to defend the fortress city of Anchialus on the Black Sea Coast. Meanwhile, Telets, ruler (khagan) of the Bulgarian Empire, blocks the mountain passes and takes positions on the heights near Anchialus. During a desperate cavalry charge, the Bulgars are defeated and many are captured; Telets manages to escape. Constantine enters Constantinople in triumph, and kills all the prisoners.

Europe

• August – Byzantine troops invade the Papal States, in alliance with King Desiderius of the Lombards. King Pepin III ("the Short") intervenes, and begins negotiations between the Lombards and Pope Paul I. Desiderius promises to end the hostilities, but on condition that Pepin sends back Lombard hostages held by the Franks.

Britain

• Ciniod I succeeds Bridei V, as king of the Picts (modern Scotland).

Abbasid Caliphate

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Abbasid Caliphate under Al-Mansur (r. 754–775) in black and Emirate of Córdoba in white

• In 763 Al-Mansur sent his troops to conquer Al-Andalus for the Abbasid empire. But the ruler Abd al-Rahman I successfully defended his territory. Al-Mansur withdrew and thereafter focused his troops on holding the eastern part of his empire on lands that were once part of Persia.
• January 21 – Battle of Bakhamra: The Abbasid army under Isa ibn Musa defeats the Alids, and puts an end to their rebellion. The power of the Abbasid dynasty is consolidated.

Asia

• February 17 – An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Shi Chaoyi hangs himself to avoid being captured by Tang troops sent by the renegade Li Huaixian, ending the 7-year rebellion against the Tang dynasty in China.
• November 18 – Forces of the Tibetan Empire, under Trisong Detsen, occupy the Tang capital of Chang'an (modern Xi'an) for 15 days, and install a puppet emperor. Tibetans take over the horse pastures.

Central America

• July 2 – Yax Pasaj Chan Yopaat ("Rising Sun") becomes the new ruler of the Mayan city state of Copán in Honduras after the death of Kʼakʼ Yipyaj Chan Kʼawiil, who had reigned since 749. Yax Pasaj reigns until 810.

Births

• Haito, bishop of Basel
• Harun al-Rashid, Muslim caliph (or 766)
• Wang, empress of the Tang dynasty (d. 816)

Deaths

• November 20 – Domnall Midi, High King of Ireland
• Bridei V, king of the Picts
• Fang Guan, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 697)
• Jianzhen, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 688)
• Shi Chaoyi, emperor of the Yan (Anshi) state
• Wei Jiansu, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 687)