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729

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Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 726
  • 727
  • 728
  • 729
  • 730
  • 731
  • 732
729 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar729
DCCXXIX
Ab urbe condita1482
Armenian calendar178
ԹՎ ՃՀԸ
Assyrian calendar5479
Balinese saka calendar650–651
Bengali calendar136
Berber calendar1679
Buddhist calendar1273
Burmese calendar91
Byzantine calendar6237–6238
Chinese calendar戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
3425 or 3365
— to —
己巳年 (Earth Snake)
3426 or 3366
Coptic calendar445–446
Discordian calendar1895
Ethiopian calendar721–722
Hebrew calendar4489–4490
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat785–786
 - Shaka Samvat650–651
 - Kali Yuga3829–3830
Holocene calendar10729
Iranian calendar107–108
Islamic calendar110–111
Japanese calendarJinki 6 / Tenpyō 1
(天平元年)
Javanese calendar622–623
Julian calendar729
DCCXXIX
Korean calendar3062
Minguo calendar1183 before ROC
民前1183年
Nanakshahi calendar−739
Seleucid era1040/1041 AG
Thai solar calendar1271–1272
Tibetan calendar阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
855 or 474 or −298
— to —
阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
856 or 475 or −297

Year 729 (DCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 729 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

Europe

  • Battle of Ravenna: Byzantine troops under Eutychius, exarch of Ravenna, are defeated by an Italian force, raised by Gregory II, in opposition to iconoclasm.
  • An alliance between Duke Eudes of Aquitaine and Munuza, the Moorish governor of Cerdanya, is cemented by marriage to Eudes' illegitimate daughter Lampégia.[1]
  • In Denmark, construction of the Kanhave Canal across the island of Samsø is completed. Although the canal is only about 10 kilometres long, it is one of the largest engineering projects undertaken in Denmark during the Early Middle Ages.[2]

Britain

Asia

  • Battle of Baykand: The Umayyad Arabs narrowly escape disaster when cut off from water by the Turgesh, and push through to reach Bukhara in Transoxiana.
  • Siege of Kamarja: A small Arab garrison defends the fortress of Kamarja against the Turgesh for 58 days, ending with a negotiated withdrawal to Samarkand.

By topic

Food and drink

  • Chinese eating sticks are introduced in the next 20 years in Japan, where people heretofore have used one-piece pincers. The Japanese call them hashi.


Births

  • Du Huangchang, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (or 728)
  • Li Huaiguang, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 785)

Deaths

References

  1. ^ David Nicolle (2008). Poitiers AD 732, Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (p. 19). ISBN 978-184603-230-1
  2. ^ Wickham, Chris. Framing the Early Middle Ages. p. 366.
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