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[[File:Abbasids Baghdad Iraq 765.jpg|200px|thumb|[[Gold dinar]] under Abbasid caliph [[al-Mansur]] in 765]]
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Year '''765''' ('''[[Roman numerals|DCCLXV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. The denomination 765 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 ==
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===By place===

==== Europe ====
* King [[Pepin the Short|Pepin III ("the Short")]] restores the [[Papal States|papal]] privileges (see [[Donation of Pepin]]) in [[Duchy of Benevento|Benevento]] and [[Tuscany]] territory (and partially in [[Duchy of Spoleto|Spoleto]]).
* The [[Annals of Tigernach]] tell of a shortage of [[bread]] in [[Ireland]]. 

==== Britain ====
[[File:Alhred sceat 765 75001447.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|[[Sceat]] of King [[Alhred of Northumbria|Alhred]] (r. 765–774)]]
* King [[Æthelwald Moll of Northumbria|Æthelwald of Northumbria]] is deposed at ''Pincanheale'', possibly at a gathering of his own [[magnate]]s. He is succeeded by [[Alhred of Northumbria|Alhred]], a distant cousin of the late king [[Oswulf of Northumbria|Oswulf]].

==== Abbasid Caliphate ====
* The [[Zenata]] [[Berber people|Berber]] tribe of [[Banu Ifran]] rebels against the [[Abbasid Caliphate]], and creates an independent state centered around [[Tlemcen]] (modern [[Algeria]]).<ref>Gilbert Meynier (2010). ''L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518)''. Paris: La Découverte; p.27</ref> Their tribal chief [[Abu Qurra]] rebuilds the city (formerly, the Roman colonia [[Tlemcen|Pomaria]]).

=== By topic ===

==== Agriculture ====
* [[Europe]]an writings make the first known mention of a [[three-field system]] in use in [[Middle Ages|medieval]] Europe. The [[crop rotation]] is the practice of growing a series of different types of [[crop]]s in the same area in sequential [[season]]s. Under this system, the land of an [[Estate (land)|estate]] or [[village]] is divided into three large fields, and makes a given section of land productive 2 years out of 3, instead of every other year (approximate date).
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== Births ==
* [[Ali al-Ridha]], [[Twelver|Shī‘ah Imām]] and Muslim [[Scholarly method|scholar]] (d. [[818]])
* [[Fastrada]], Frankish queen consort (d. [[794]])
* [[Han Hong (general)|Han Hong]], general of the [[Tang dynasty]] (d. [[823]])
* [[Pei Du]], [[chancellor of the Tang dynasty]] (d. [[839]])

== Deaths ==
* [[September 27]] &ndash; [[Pugu Huai'en]], Chinese general during the [[Tang dynasty]]
* [[Ceolwulf of Northumbria|Ceolwulf]], king of [[Northumbria]]
* [[Domnall Midi]], [[High King of Ireland]]
* [[Ealdwulf of Lindsey|Ealdwulf]], [[bishop of Lindsey]]
* [[Eardwulf of Kent|Eardwulf]], king of [[Kingdom of Kent|Kent]]
* [[Flaithbertach mac Loingsig]], High King of [[Ireland]]
* [[Fujiwara no Toyonari]], Japanese politician (b. [[704]])
* [[Gao Shi]], Chinese [[Chinese poetry|poet]]
* [[Gyeongdeok of Silla|Gyeongdeok]], king of [[Silla]] ([[Korea]])
* [[Hemele]], [[bishop of Lichfield]]
* [[Ja'far al-Sadiq]], sixth Shī‘ah Imām and Muslim scholar (b. [[702]])
* [[Emperor Junnin|Junnin]], emperor of [[Japan]] (b. [[733]])
* [[Miao Jinqing]], chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. [[685]])
* [[Stephen the Younger]], Byzantine [[Theology|theologian]] (or [[764]])
* [[Telets of Bulgaria|Telets]], ruler (''[[khagan]]'') of the [[First Bulgarian Empire|Bulgarian Empire]]
* [[Tello, Bishop of Chur|Tello]], [[bishop of Chur]] (approximate date)
* [[Wang Changling]], Chinese poet and official (b. [[698]])

== References ==
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