773

This article is about the year 773. For the number, see 773 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	740s  750s  760s  – 770s –  780s  790s  800s
Years:	770 771 772 – 773 – 774 775 776

773 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

773 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	773 DCCLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1526
Armenian calendar	222 ԹՎ ՄԻԲ
Assyrian calendar	5523
Bengali calendar	180
Berber calendar	1723
Buddhist calendar	1317
Burmese calendar	135
Byzantine calendar	6281–6282
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 3469 or 3409     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3470 or 3410
Coptic calendar	489–490
Discordian calendar	1939
Ethiopian calendar	765–766
Hebrew calendar	4533–4534
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	829–830
- Shaka Samvat	695–696
- Kali Yuga	3874–3875
Holocene calendar	10773
Iranian calendar	151–152
Islamic calendar	156–157
Japanese calendar	Hōki 4 (宝亀４年)
Julian calendar	773 DCCLXXIII
Korean calendar	3106
Minguo calendar	1139 before ROC 民前1139年
Seleucid era	1084/1085 AG
Thai solar calendar	1315–1316

Frankish cavalry (with mail armour)

Year 773 (DCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 773 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

• Summer – King Charlemagne and his uncle Bernard, son of Charles Martel, crosses with a Frankish expeditionary force the Alps at request of pope Adrian I. At the foot of the mountains in the Susa Valley (Northern Italy) the Franks are hindered by Lombard fortifications. After scouting, Charlemagne attacks the defenders from the flank and forces the Lombards to flee to the fortified capital Pavia.
• Siege of Pavia: Charlemagne besieges Pavia which is poorly stocked with food. King Desiderius remains in the capital, he orders his son Adalgis to defend Verona to guard over Gerberga and the children of Carloman I. After a short siege, Adalgis flees to Constantinople where he is received by emperor Constantine V. Meanwhile the Franks capture the cities of Verona and Mortara (Lombardy).
• Saxon Wars: Saxon forces seize upon Charlemagne's preoccupation with Italy to retake Eresburg and Syburg (near Dortmund). They unsuccessfully attack the episcopal centre of Büraburg which has been established by St. Boniface (see 723).

Britain

• King Alhred of Northumbria makes overtures of friendship toward Charlemagne (approximate date).

Arabian Empire

• Introduction of the number 0 to the city of Baghdad which will be developed in the Middle East by Arabian mathematicians who will base their numbers on the Indian system (long after the Maya culture developed the concept – Maya numerals).

Asia

• King Khongtekcha of Manipur (modern India) dies after a 10-year reign; during his rule the Manipuri language script first appears.

By topic

Ecology

• A large and sudden increase in radiocarbon (¹⁴C) around AD 773 in coral skeletons from the South China Sea.

Births

• Duan Wenchang, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 835)
• Fujiwara no Otsugu, Japanese statesman (d. 843)
• Heizei, emperor of Japan (d. 824)
• Li Su, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 821)
• Liu Zongyuan, Chinese poet and official (d. 819)
• Pepin of Italy, son of Charlemagne (d. 810)
• Peter of Atroa, Byzantine abbot and saint (d. 837)
• Wei Chuhou, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 829)

Deaths

• Brochfael ap Elisedd, king of Powys (Wales)
• Donn Cothaid mac Cathail, king of Connacht (Ireland)
• Khongtekcha, king of Manipur (India)
• Lebuinus, Anglo-Saxon missionary (approximate date)
• Rōben, Japanese Buddhist monk (b. 689)
• Xue Song, general of the Yan and Tang Dynasties