745

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century 8th century 9th century
Decades:	720s 730s 740s 750s 760s
Years:	742 743 744 745 746 747 748

745 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	745 DCCXLV
Ab urbe condita	1498
Armenian calendar	194 ԹՎ ՃՂԴ
Assyrian calendar	5495
Balinese saka calendar	666–667
Bengali calendar	151–152
Berber calendar	1695
Buddhist calendar	1289
Burmese calendar	107
Byzantine calendar	6253–6254
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3442 or 3235     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3443 or 3236
Coptic calendar	461–462
Discordian calendar	1911
Ethiopian calendar	737–738
Hebrew calendar	4505–4506
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	801–802
- Shaka Samvat	666–667
- Kali Yuga	3845–3846
Holocene calendar	10745
Iranian calendar	123–124
Islamic calendar	127–128
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō 17 (天平１７年)
Javanese calendar	639–640
Julian calendar	745 DCCXLV
Korean calendar	3078
Minguo calendar	1167 before ROC 民前1167年
Nanakshahi calendar	−723
Seleucid era	1056/1057 AG
Thai solar calendar	1287–1288
Tibetan calendar	阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 871 or 490 or −282     — to — 阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 872 or 491 or −281

Map of the Turkish Empire (8th century)

Year 745 (DCCXLV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 745 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

• Bubonic plague in Asia Minor kills 1/3 of the population, and subsequently sweeps through the Peloponnese (Balkan Peninsula) (approximate date).

Europe

• Hunald I, duke of Aquitaine, retires to a monastery, probably on Île de Ré.^[1] He is succeeded by his son Waifar, who struggles during his rule for independence against the Frankish Kingdom.
• Carantania (modern Austria) loses its independence and becomes part of the Frankish Kingdom, due to the pressing danger posed by Avar tribes from the east (approximate date).

Asia

• China has accomplishments in poetry, painting and printing, but its monarchical system tends toward failure. Emperor Xuan Zong has fallen under the spell of his son's wife Yang Guifei (one of the Four Beauties of Ancient China), a Taoist priestess. He is ignoring the economy and the Tang dynasty is declining.
• The newly founded Uyghur Empire controls most of the former Turkic Empire territory, creating an empire that extends from Lake Balkash (modern Kazakhstan) to Lake Baikal (Mongolia), and is subject to Chinese suzerainty (approximate date).

By topic

Religion

• Genbō, Japanese scholar-monk, is exiled to Dazaifu on the island of Kyushu.^[2]

Births

• Idris I, emir and founder of the Idrisid dynasty (d. 791)
• Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi, Muslim caliph (or 744)
• Musa al-Kadhim, seventh Twelver Shī‘ah imām (d. 799)
• Wei Gao, general of the Tang dynasty (d. 805)
• Willehad, bishop of Bremen (approximate date)
• Yaoshan Weiyan, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 827)
• Zhang Jianfeng, statesman of the Tang dynasty (d. 800)

Deaths

• Cathal Maenmaighe, king of Uí Maine (Ireland)
• Daniel, bishop of Winchester
• Herlindis of Maaseik, Frankish abbess (or 753)
• Ingwald, bishop of London
• Kadobe, Japanese prince
• Kulun Beg, ruler (khagan) of the Turkish Empire
• Thrasimund II, duke of Spoleto
• Wilfrid, bishop of York
• Yusuf ibn Umar al-Thaqafi, Muslim governor

References

1. Pierre Riche, The Carolingians: A Family who forged Europe, pp. 51–52.
2. Grapard, Allan G. (1992). The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History, p. 67; excerpt, "We have no information concerning Genbō's exile; the Shoku-Nihongi states simply that Genbō behaved in a manner that did not befit his ecclesiastic position and that he died in 746 as he was trying to escape."; Matsunaga, p. 125; excerpt, "...the degree of Genbō's corruption remains equivocal."