Editing 730

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[[File:Tang XianZong.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|Emperor [[Emperor Xuanzong of Tang|Xuan Zong]] ('''Li Longji''') (685–762)]]
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Year '''730''' ('''[[Roman numerals|DCCXXX]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. The denomination 730 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 ====
* 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 &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[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.
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== Births ==
* [[Al-Rabi' ibn Yunus]], Arab minister (approximate date)
* [[Autpert Ambrose]], Frankish [[Order of Saint Benedict|Benedictine]] monk (d. [[784]])
* [[Beatus of Liébana]], monk and [[Theology|theologian]] (approximate date)
* [[Jia Dan]], general of the [[Tang dynasty]] (d. [[805]])
* [[Offa of Mercia]] (approximate date)
* [[Tarasios of Constantinople|Tarasios]], [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|patriarch of Constantinople]] (approximate date)
* [[Zhang Xiaozhong]], general of the Tang Dynasty (d. [[791]])

== Deaths ==
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah]], Arab general
* [[Corbinian]], Frankish [[bishop]] (approximate date)
* [[Hugh of Rouen (died 730)|Hugh of Champagne]], grandson of [[Pepin of Herstal]]
* [[Kʼinich Ahkal Moʼ Nahb III]], [[Maya civilization|Maya]] ruler of [[Palenque]]
* [[Lanfredus]], duke of [[Alamannia]]
* [[Peter of Cantabria|Peter]], duke of [[Duchy of Cantabria|Cantabria]]
* [[Selbach mac Ferchair]], king of [[Dál Riata]]
* [[Tiberius Petasius]], Byzantine [[usurper]]
* [[Yuwen Rong]], [[Chancellor of the Tang dynasty|chancellor of the Tang Dynasty]] (or [[731]])
* [[Zhang Yue (Tang dynasty)|Zhang Yue]], chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. [[663]])

== References ==
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