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== Events == <onlyinclude> === By place === ==== Europe ==== * King [[Liutprand, King of the Lombards|Liutprand]] contracts an [[Military alliance|alliance]] with [[Eutychius (exarch)|Eutychius]], exarch of [[Exarchate of Ravenna|Ravenna]], and agrees to support him in his attack on [[Duchy of Rome|Rome]], while subjugating the independent southern [[Kingdom of the Lombards|Lombard]] duchies of [[Duchy of Benevento|Benevento]] and [[Duchy of Spoleto|Spoleto]]. * [[Tiberius Petasius]] proclaims himself emperor in [[Tuscia]]. Eutychius defeats him with the support of [[Pope Gregory II]], and Tiberius is killed in [[Canale Monterano|Monterano]], with his head sent to the Byzantine emperor [[Leo III the Isaurian|Leo III]] as a gift.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hellenismos.com/newsite/?q=node/12|title=History of the Byzantine Empire, SECTION II REIGN OF LEO III (THE ISAURIAN) A.D. 717-741, George Finlay, 1906|access-date=April 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715181347/http://www.hellenismos.com/newsite/?q=node%2F12|archive-date=July 15, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Charles Martel]] defeats the last independent [[Duchy|dukedom]] of [[Alamannia]], and incorporates it into the [[Francia|Frankish Empire]]. He also launches raids on the [[Saxons]] beyond the [[Rhine]]. ==== Arabian Empire ==== * September–October – [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyad]] forces sack the Byzantine [[Fortification|fortress]] of [[Charsianon]] in central [[Anatolia]] (modern [[Turkey]]), which remains a contested stronghold during the next century of [[Arab–Byzantine wars|Byzantine–Arab warfare]].<ref>Kazhdan 1991, p. 415</ref> * [[December 9]] – [[Battle of Marj Ardabil]]: The [[Khazars]] under [[Barjik]] invade the provinces of [[Jibal]] and [[Azerbaijan (Iran)|Adharybaydjian]]. He defeats an Umayyad army (25,000 men) at [[Ardabil]] ([[Iran]]), killing [[al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah]]. ==== China ==== * Emperor [[Emperor Xuanzong of Tang|Xuan Zong]] has four [[palace]] walls in the [[Chang'an#Northeastern Chang'an|northeast sector]] of the capital city [[Chang'an]] dismantled and reassembled to construct a new [[Taoism|Daoist]] [[abbey]], the grounds of which are formally a large [[garden]] for the [[Agriculture in China|Bureau of Agriculture]]. === By topic === * In this decade [[hops]] are first cultivated in Germany, in the [[Hallertau]] region.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.germanbeerinstitute.com/history.html|title=Three Millennia of German Brewing|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130185818/http://www.germanbeerinstitute.com/history.html|archive-date=30 November 2016}}</ref> ==== Religion ==== * Leo III of the [[Byzantine Empire]] orders the destruction of all [[icon]]s, beginning the First [[Iconoclasm|Iconoclastic]] Period. Many [[monk]]s flee to Greece and Italy (taking smaller icons with them, hidden in their clothing); others flee to the caves of the [[Cappadocia]]n desert. </onlyinclude>
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