Year 754 (DCCLIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 754th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 754th year of the 1st millennium, the 54th year of the 8th century, and the 5th year of the 750s decade. The denomination 754 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
Abbasid Caliphate
Asia
- Jianzhen, Chinese Buddhist monk, arrives in Nara, where he is welcomed by former emperor ShÃ
Âmu and empress KÃ
ÂmyÃ
Â. During his visit Jianzhen introduces sugar to the Japanese court, using it to mask the flavors of foul-tasting herbal tea.
- A Tang census shows that 75% of the Chinese live north of the Chang Jiang (Yangtze) River. The capital of Chang'an has a population of 2 million and more than 25 other cities have well over 500,000 citizens (approximate date).
By topic
Religion
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Births
Deaths
- June 5
- Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary
- Eoban, bishop of Utrecht
- June 10 – Abul Abbas al-Saffah, Muslim caliph
- August 17 – Carloman mayor of the palace of Austrasia and brother of Pepin III (The Short)
- Ansemund, Visigothic count
- Burchard, bishop of Würzburg (approximate date)
- Childeric III, king of the Franks (approximate date)
- Cui Hao, Chinese poet
- Hiltrud, duchess regent of Bavaria (b. 716)
- Li Linfu, chancellor of the Tang dynasty
- Rhodri Molwynog, king of Gwynedd (Wales)
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