736

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736 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

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Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

736 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	736 DCCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1489
Armenian calendar	185 ԹՎ ՃՁԵ
Assyrian calendar	5486
Bengali calendar	143
Berber calendar	1686
Buddhist calendar	1280
Burmese calendar	98
Byzantine calendar	6244–6245
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3432 or 3372     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3433 or 3373
Coptic calendar	452–453
Discordian calendar	1902
Ethiopian calendar	728–729
Hebrew calendar	4496–4497
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	792–793
- Shaka Samvat	657–658
- Kali Yuga	3836–3837
Holocene calendar	10736
Iranian calendar	114–115
Islamic calendar	117–118
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō 8 (天平８年)
Javanese calendar	629–630
Julian calendar	736 DCCXXXVI
Korean calendar	3069
Minguo calendar	1176 before ROC 民前1176年
Nanakshahi calendar	−732
Seleucid era	1047/1048 AG
Thai solar calendar	1278–1279

Map of Dál Riata (modern Scotland)

Year 736 (DCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 736 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

• Charles Martel, Merovingian mayor of the palace, forms local alliances with the Burgundians, and imposes Frankish domination on Provence. He defeats Muslim forces at Sernhac and Beaucaire in Septimania (Southern France).^[1]
• Battle of Nîmes: The Franks under Charles Martel fail to capture Narbonne but devastate most of the other settlements, including Nîmes, Agde, Béziers and Maguelonne, which he views as potential strongholds of the Umayyads.^[2]

Britain

• King Æthelbald of Mercia is described in the Ismere Diploma as ruler (bretwalda) of the Mercians, and all the provinces in southern England. He is also named "Rex Britanniae" (king of Britain).^[3][4]
• King Óengus I of the Picts invades the neighbouring kingdom of Dál Riata, which is subjugated. He takes the fortress of Dunadd, and establishes his rule in Scotland for over two decades.

Asia

• Rōben, scholar-Buddhist monk, invites Shinshō to give lectures on the Avatamsaka Sutra at Kinshōsen-ji (later Tōdai-ji); this event is considered to be the roots of the Kegon school of Buddhism founded in Japan.

Mesoamerica

• A diplomatic team from Calakmul, led by Wamaw K'awiil, meets with Quiriguá leader K’ak Tiliw Chan Yopaa, in an attempt to negotiate an end to the city's rebellion during the Third Tikal-Calakmul War.
• Yik'in Chan K'awiil, ruler (ajaw) of the leading Maya city state of Tikal (modern-day Guatemala), conquers rival Calakmul, within the northern Petén region of the Yucatán region (Southern Mexico)..

By topic

Food and drinks

• The first documentation is made of hop cultivation in the Hallertau region of present-day Germany (which is today the most important production centre with about 25% of the worldwide production).^[5]

Births

Deaths

• Hugbert, duke of Bavaria
• Muiredach mac Ainbcellaig, king of Dál Riata
• Yamabe no Akahito, Japanese poet

References

1. David Nicolle (2008). Poitiers AD 732, Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (p. 19). ISBN 978-184603-230-1
2. Riche, Pierre (1993). The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe. University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 45. ISBN 0-8122-1342-4
3. "Anglo-Saxons.net: S 89". Retrieved 27 April 2007.
4. Fletcher, Who's Who, pp. 98–100
5. Sirrine, Robert. J (2009), Sustainable Hop Production in the Great Lakes Region. Michigan State University.