Editing 764

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Year '''764''' ('''[[Roman numerals|DCCLXIV]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Sunday]] of the [[Julian calendar]], the 764th year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and [[Anno Domini]] (AD) designations, the 764th year of the [[1st millennium]], the 64th year of the [[8th century]], and the 5th year of the [[760s]] decade. The denomination 764 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 ====
* [[Domenico Monegario]] is deposed, after [[Pope Paul I]] demanded [[donation]]s from [[Republic of Venice|Venice]]. Monegario is [[Blindness|blinded]] and [[exile]]d, and succeeded by [[Maurizio Galbaio]] as the 7th [[Doge (title)|doge]] of Venice. During his reign, Venetian [[wealth]] is increased via [[trade]].

==== Britain ====
* King [[Offa of Mercia]] conquers [[Kingdom of Kent|Kent]], and brings an end to the rule of kings [[Ealhmund of Kent|Ealhmund]] and [[Sigered of Kent|Sigered]] in [[West Kent]]. He imposes [[Mercia]]n overlordship on the kingdom, but allows a local king, [[Heaberht of Kent|Heaberht]], to rule there.

==== Asia ====
* [[October 14]]&ndash;[[October 21|21]] &ndash; [[Fujiwara no Nakamaro Rebellion]]: A short-lived revolt led by [[Fujiwara no Nakamaro]] is suppressed. [[Emperor Junnin]] is deposed after a 6-year reign, and forced into exile. Former empress [[Empress Kōken|Kōken]] reassumes the imperial [[throne]] of [[Japan]], and takes the name Shōtoku. She appoints her close associate, the priest [[Dōkyō]], prime minister (''taishi''), running the government with him. Nakamaro is captured and killed with his wife and children.<ref name="sansome90">Sansom, p. 90; excerpt, "... Nakamaro, better known by his later title as the prime minister Oshikatsu, was in high favour with the emperor Junnin but not with the ex-empress Kōken. In a civil disturbance that took place in 764–765, Oshikatsu was captured and killed, while the young emperor was deposed and exiled in 765 and presumably strangled. Kōken reascended the throne as the empress Shōtoku, and her priest Dōkyō was all powerful until she died withous issue in 770."</ref>

=== By topic ===

==== Geography ====
* According to the historian [[Theophanes the Confessor]], [[iceberg]]s float past [[Constantinople]] from the [[Black Sea]] (approximate date).

==== Religion ====
* [[Cancor]], a [[Francia|Frankish]] count (possibly of [[Hesbaye]]), founds [[Lorsch Abbey]] (modern-day [[Germany]]).
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== Births ==
* [[Abu Thawr]], Muslim scholar (d. [[854]])
* [[Al-Hadi]], Muslim caliph (d. [[786]])
* [[Fujiwara no Nakanari]], Japanese [[Nobility|nobleman]] (d. [[810]])
* [[Li Jiang (born 764)|Li Jiang]], [[Chancellor of the Tang dynasty|chancellor of the Tang Dynasty]] (d. [[830]])
* [[Tian Hongzheng]], general of the Tang Dynasty (d. [[821]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Joseph of Freising]], German bishop 
* [[Arwa bint Mansur al-Himyari]], wife of caliph al-Mansur.
* [[Abdallah ibn Ali]], Muslim general
* [[Bregowine]], [[archbishop of Canterbury]] 
* [[Fujiwara no Nakamaro]], Japanese statesman (b. [[706]])
* [[Stephen the Younger]], Byzantine [[Theology|theologian]] (or [[765]])

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