Editing AD 747 (section)

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Byzantine Empire ====
* [[Arab–Byzantine Wars#Raids under the last Umayyads and the rise of Iconoclasm|Arab–Byzantine War]]: Emperor [[Constantine V]] destroys the Arab fleet off [[Cyprus]], with the aid of ships from the [[Italian city-states]], breaking the naval power of the [[Umayyad Caliphate]].<ref>{{citation
 | first1 = John H.
 | last1 = Pryor
 | last2= Jeffreys
 | first2 = Elizabeth M.
 | title = The Age of the ΔΡΟΜΩΝ: The Byzantine Navy ca. 500–1204
 | publisher = Brill Academic Publishers
 | year = 2006
 | isbn = 978-90-04-15197-0
 | page = 33}}</ref>

==== Europe ====
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Carloman (mayor of the palace)|Carloman]], mayor of the palace of [[Austrasia]], renounces his position as ''[[majordomo]]'', and withdraws from public life. He retires to a [[monastery]] near [[Rome]], being [[tonsure]]d by [[Pope Zachary]], and leaves his brother [[Pepin the Short]] as sole ruler (''[[de facto]]'') of the [[Francia|Frankish Kingdom]]. 
* [[Bubonic plague]] breaks out in [[Sicily]], [[Calabria]] ([[Southern Italy]]), and [[Monemvasia]] (modern [[Greece]]).

==== Islamic Empire ====
* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[Abbasid Revolution#Persian phase|Abbasid Revolution]]: [[Abu Muslim Khorasani]], [[Persian people|Persian]] military leader from [[Greater Khorasan|Khorasan]], begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the [[Black Standard]]. Close to 10,000 [[Muslims]], primarily [[Greater Khorasan|Khorasani]] [[Persians]] are under his command, when the hostilities officially begin in [[Merv]] (modern [[Turkmenistan]]).

==== Asia ====
* Chinese forces under [[Gao Xianzhi]] (a [[Korea]]n in Tang employ) defeat the Arabs and [[Tibet]]ans, by rapid military expeditions over the [[Pamir Mountains]] and [[Hindu Kush]]. About 72 local [[India]]n and [[Sogdia]]n kingdoms become Tang [[vassal]]s. Over the next two years he establishes complete control in [[East Asia]].<ref>New Book of Tang, vol. 135</ref>
* Emperor [[Emperor Xuanzong of Tang|Xuan Zong]] abolishes the [[death penalty]] in [[China]], during the [[Tang dynasty]] (approximate date).
* [[Empress Kōmyō]] founds the [[Shin-Yakushi-ji]] Buddhist temple in [[Nara, Nara|Nara]] ([[Japan]]).
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