740 740 600 Category="740"

Years:
736 737 738 739 - 740 - 741 742 743 744
Decades:
710s 720s 730s - 740s - 750s 760s 770s
Centuries:
7th century - 8th century - 9th century

Events

October 26 - An Earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death.
End of the reign of king Sevar and thus of the House of Dulo in Bulgaria.
St. Cuthbert becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
Pippin III marries Bertrada of Laon.
The Khazars a nation of the Black Sea Steppe, though not ethnically Jewish, voluntarily convert to Judaism

Births

Deaths

Saint Æthelwald, Bishop of Lindisfarne
Zhang Jiuling, ex-Chancellor of Tang China (b. 678)
Zayd ibn Ali, 5th Zaidi Shia Imam, martyred in a battle