730 Explained
Year 730 (DCCXXX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 730 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
Arabian Empire
China
By topic
- In this decade hops are first cultivated in Germany, in the Hallertau region.[3]
Religion
- Leo III of the Byzantine Empire orders the destruction of all icons, beginning the First Iconoclastic Period. Many monks flee to Greece and Italy (taking smaller icons with them, hidden in their clothing); others flee to the caves of the Cappadocian desert.
Births
Deaths
- December 9 - Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah, Arab general
- Corbinian, Frankish bishop (approximate date)
- Hugh of Champagne, grandson of Pepin of Herstal
- K'inich Ahkal Mo' Naab III, Maya ruler of Palenque
- Lantfrid, duke of Alamannia
- Peter, duke of Cantabria
- Selbach mac Ferchair, king of Dál Riata
- Tiberius Petasius, Byzantine usurper
- Yuwen Rong, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (or 731)
- Zhang Yue, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 663)
Notes and References
- Web site: History of the Byzantine Empire, SECTION II REIGN OF LEO III (THE ISAURIAN) A.D. 717-741, George Finlay, 1906. April 5, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20180715181347/http://www.hellenismos.com/newsite/?q=node%2F12. July 15, 2018. dead.
- Kazhdan 1991, p. 415
- Web site: Three Millennia of German Brewing. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161130185818/http://www.germanbeerinstitute.com/history.html. 30 November 2016.