742

Events

• Chinese poet Li Po is presented before the emperor and given a position in the Imperial court. (approximate date)
• Saint Sturm establishes the abbey of Fulda. (or 744?)
• Artabasdus is Byzantine Emperor.
• After a forty-year vacancy, Stephen becomes Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch at the suggestion of Umayyad caliph Hisham.

Births

• Charlemagne, king and emperor of the Franks (disputed date)

Deaths