741

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century 8th century 9th century
Decades:	720s 730s 740s 750s 760s
Years:	738 739 740 741 742 743 744

741 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	741 DCCXLI
Ab urbe condita	1494
Armenian calendar	190 ԹՎ ՃՂ
Assyrian calendar	5491
Balinese saka calendar	662–663
Bengali calendar	148
Berber calendar	1691
Buddhist calendar	1285
Burmese calendar	103
Byzantine calendar	6249–6250
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3438 or 3231 — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3439 or 3232
Coptic calendar	457–458
Discordian calendar	1907
Ethiopian calendar	733–734
Hebrew calendar	4501–4502
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	797–798
- Shaka Samvat	662–663
- Kali Yuga	3841–3842
Holocene calendar	10741
Iranian calendar	119–120
Islamic calendar	123–124
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō13 (天平13年)
Javanese calendar	635–636
Julian calendar	741 DCCXLI
Korean calendar	3074
Minguo calendar	1171 before ROC 民前1171年
Nanakshahi calendar	−727
Seleucid era	1052/1053 AG
Thai solar calendar	1283–1284
Tibetan calendar	阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) 867 or 486 or −286 — to — 阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 868 or 487 or −285

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June 18 – Emperor Leo III ("the Isaurian") dies of dropsyatConstantinople, after a 24-year reign that has saved the Byzantine Empire and delivered Eastern Europe from the threat of an Arab conquest. He is succeeded by his son Constantine V.
Artabasdos, Byzantine general (strategos) of the Armeniac theme, defeats Constantine V and advances on Constantinople, where he is crowned emperor. He secures the support of the themes of Thrace and Opsikion, and abandons Leo's religious policy of iconoclasm. Constantine seeks the support of the Anatolic theme.

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February 11 – Wak Chanil Ajaw (Lady Six Sky), queen of the Mayan city stateofNaranjoinGuatemala, dies after a reign of more than 47 years and is succeeded by her son, Yax Mayuy Chan Chaak, who reigns until his own death in 744.
June 23 – Kʼawiil Chan Kʼinich becomes the new ruler of the Mayan city stateatDos PilasinGuatemala after the death of Ucha'an K'in B'alam and reigns until 761 when he is forced to flee during an uprising by rebels from Tamarindito.

Europe

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October 22 – Charles Martel, Merovingian mayor of the palace, dies in his palace at Quirzy-sur-Oise (modern-day Picardy). His territories are divided between his adult sons Carloman and Pepin the Short, although the Frankish Kingdom has had no true king since the death of Theuderic IV (see 737). Lands to the east, including Austrasia and Alemannia (with Bavaria as a vassal) go to Carloman, while Pepin receives Neustria and Burgundy (with Aquitaine as a vassal). Grifo, youngest son of Charles, succeeds him as mayor of the palace, and probably receives a strip of land between Neustria and Austrasia.
Pepin the Short marries Bertrada of Laon, daughter of Count Charibert of Laon.^[1]

Switzerland

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In 741 and 744, documents in the archives of St. Gallen Abbey describe the village of KempratenasCentoprato, another document in 863asCentiprata, inspired by the Latin name Centum Prata.
Anunnery given by the Alamannic noblewoman Beata on Lützelau island is first mentioned. In 744, the nunnery is sold to Einsiedeln Abbey.
Ufenau island in Switzerland is first mentioned in 741 as "Hupinauia", and in 744 as "Ubinauvia" — island of Huppan of Huphan.

Africa

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The Great Berber Revolt: Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik appoints Kulthum ibn Iyad al-Qasi as governor (wali) of Ifriqiya (North Africa). A fourth expedition is sent from Syria by the Umayyad Caliphate to crush the rebellion in the Atlas region, but is defeated at the Battle of Bagdoura, in the plain of the Ghrab (modern Morocco). The counter-attack of the Kharijite rebels to the East is successful, but fails to conquer Kairouan from the loyalists. A more radical branch of the Tunisian Kharijites, (the Sufrists) however, manages to take the city soon after.^[2]

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Religion

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November 28 – Pope Gregory III dies at Rome, after a 10-year reign. He is succeeded by Zachary, as the 91st pope of the Catholic Church.^[3]
April 23 – A fire destroys the English city of York Minster, including its Church.^[4] The church is later rebuilt as a more impressive structure, containing thirty altars.
Japanese authorities decree that Buddhist temples should be established throughout the country (approximate date).

^ Settipani 1989.

^ Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp. 25

^ Horace K. Mann (1913). "Pope St. Gregory III" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

^ "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) pp24

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Settipani, Christian (1989). Les Ancêtres de Charlemagne [Charlemagne's Ancestors] (in French). Paris, France. ISBN 2-906483-28-1. OCLC 28323789.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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