History
750
General
Population: 224 Million*
- Entertainment: Start of Gregorian church music
Hanlin academy for arts and sciences founded in China
Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf written
- Food: Hops first used in Bavaria
- Language: Earliest records of the existence of Tamil language
- Medicine: St. Vitus dance epidemics in Germany
- Religion: Abbasids wipe out Omayyads (Ummayads) and obtain the title of Caliphate – Abu-al-Abbas rules
- Science: Arabic science brought to Europe
- Technology: Chinese paper techniques begin to spread
- Deaths: John of Damascus the Christian theologian
Africa
- Drought in Aksum destroys empire
Americas
- North America: Beginning of collapse of Teotihuacan civilization in Mexico - Teotihuacan destroyed by fire but remains pilgrimage sitev
Pueblo period begins in N America
Decline of Huari and Mayan civilizations
Toltecs begin to move into valley of Mexico
Asia
- General: Earliest records of the existence of Tamil language
- China: Hanlin academy for arts and sciences founded in China
- India: Tamil language developed in South India
- Japan: Horiuji temple created in Japan
Europe
- German States: Dukedom of Bavaria extended to Carniola
Hops first used in Bavaria
St. Vitus dance epidemics in Germany
End of Merovingian line in France as Childeric III deposed and Pepin the Short is chosen king of Franks, ending Merovingian Dynasty
- Italian States: Lombards capture Ravenna, ending Byzantine power in central Italy
- Spanish States: Granada founded
Middle East
- Babylon: Abbasids take power in Islamic Middle East making Baghdad their capital
- Syria: End of Muslim Omayyad rule in Damascus, Syria