745

This article is about the year 745. For the number, see 745 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	710s  720s  730s  – 740s –  750s  760s  770s
Years:	742 743 744 – 745 – 746 747 748

745 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

745 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	745 DCCXLV
Ab urbe condita	1498
Armenian calendar	194 ԹՎ ՃՂԴ
Assyrian calendar	5495
Bengali calendar	152
Berber calendar	1695
Buddhist calendar	1289
Burmese calendar	107
Byzantine calendar	6253–6254
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3441 or 3381     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3442 or 3382
Coptic calendar	461–462
Discordian calendar	1911
Ethiopian calendar	737–738
Hebrew calendar	4505–4506
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	801–802
- Shaka Samvat	667–668
- Kali Yuga	3846–3847
Holocene calendar	10745
Iranian calendar	123–124
Islamic calendar	127–128
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō 17 (天平１７年)
Julian calendar	745 DCCXLV
Korean calendar	3078
Minguo calendar	1167 before ROC 民前1167年
Seleucid era	1056/1057 AG
Thai solar calendar	1287–1288

Map of the Turkish Empire (8th century)

Year 745 (DCCXLV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) 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, duke of Aquitaine, retires to a monastery, probably on Île de Ré. 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.
• Newly founded Uyghur Empire control most of the former Turkish 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.

Births

• Idris I, emir and founder of the Idrisid Dynasty (d. 791)
• Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi, Muslim caliph (or 744)
• Musa al-Kadhim, Twelver Shī‘ah imām (d. 799)
• Wei Gao, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 805)
• Willehad, bishop of Bremen (approximate date)
• 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
• Kulun Beg, ruler (khagan) of the Turkish Empire
• Thrasimund II, duke of Spoleto
• Wilfrid, bishop of York