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==== Byzantine Empire ====
* [[August 25]] &ndash; Emperor [[Constantine V]] publicly humiliates 19 high-ranking [[official]]s in the [[Hippodrome of Constantinople]], after discovering a plot against him. He executes the leaders, [[Constantine Podopagouros]] and his brother [[Strategios Podopagouros|Strategios]], and [[Political mutilation in Byzantine culture|blinds]] and exiles the rest.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mango|first1=Cyril|author1-link=Cyril Mango|last2=Scott|first2=Roger|title=The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor. Byzantine and Near Eastern History, AD 284–813|location=Oxford, United Kingdom|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1997|isbn=0-19-822568-7|page=605}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit: I. Abteilung (641–867), 2. Band: Georgios (#2183) – Leon (#4270) | last1=Winkelmann | first1=Friedhelm | first2=Ralph-Johannes | last2=Lilie | first3 = Claudia | last3 = Ludwig | first4 = Thomas | last4 = Pratsch | first5 = Ilse | last5 = Rochow | display-authors=2 | year=2000 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=3-11-016672-0 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jlb93enPpKwC&pg=PA96 | chapter = Gregorios Dekapolites (#2486) | page = 531 | language=German}}</ref>
* Autumn &ndash; [[Siege of Kamacha (766)|Siege of Kamacha]]: Abbasid forces under [[al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba]] are defeated at the fortress city of [[Kemah, Erzincan|Kamacha]], in eastern [[Cappadocia]] (modern [[Turkey]]). A [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] relief army (12,000 men) forces the Abbasids to retreat into [[Medieval Armenia|Armenia]].
* [[Sabin of Bulgaria|Sabin]], ruler (''[[khagan]]'') of [[First Bulgarian Empire|Bulgaria]], flees to the Byzantine fortress city of [[Nesebar|Mesembria]], from where he escapes to [[Constantinople]]. Constantine V arranges for the transfer of Sabin's family from Bulgaria.