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Millennium: 1st millennium
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744 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar744
DCCXLIV
Ab urbe condita1497
Armenian calendar193
ԹՎ ՃՂԳ
Assyrian calendar5494
Balinese saka calendar665–666
Bengali calendar151
Berber calendar1694
Buddhist calendar1288
Burmese calendar106
Byzantine calendar6252–6253
Chinese calendar癸未年 (Water Goat)
3441 or 3234
    — to —
甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
3442 or 3235
Coptic calendar460–461
Discordian calendar1910
Ethiopian calendar736–737
Hebrew calendar4504–4505
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat800–801
 - Shaka Samvat665–666
 - Kali Yuga3844–3845
Holocene calendar10744
Iranian calendar122–123
Islamic calendar126–127
Japanese calendarTenpyō 16
(天平16年)
Javanese calendar638–639
Julian calendar744
DCCXLIV
Korean calendar3077
Minguo calendar1168 before ROC
民前1168年
Nanakshahi calendar−724
Seleucid era1055/1056 AG
Thai solar calendar1286–1287
Tibetan calendar阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
870 or 489 or −283
    — to —
阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
871 or 490 or −282
The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750)

Year 744 (DCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 744 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.

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Europe

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Switzerland

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Britain

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  • Wat's Dyke, a 40 mile (64 km) earthwork in present-day Wales, is constructed. The border between Mercia and Powys is set here. The date that Wat's Dyke was constructed is very uncertain, with some estimates linking the construction of the dyke to the 5th century and others to the early 9th century (approximate date).

Arabian Empire

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Dirham of caliph Ibrahim ibn al-Walid. He ruled the caliphate for just two months

Asia

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Central America

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References

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  1. ^ Wickham 1981, p. 221.
  2. ^ Hallenbeck 1982, p. 51.
  3. ^ Dionysius of Telmahre apud Hoyland, 661 n 193
  4. ^ Costambeys, "Abel (fl. 744–747)"
  5. ^ Letter by Pope Zacharias to Boniface, dated Nov. 5, 744, ed. Tangl (no.58), tr. Emerton.

Sources

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  • Hallenbeck, Jan T. (1982). "Pavia and Rome: The Lombard Monarchy and the Papacy in the Eighth Century". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. New Series. 72 (4): 1–186. doi:10.2307/1006429. JSTOR 1006429.
  • Wickham, Chris (1981). Early Medieval Italy: Central Power and Local Society, 400–1000. London: Macmillan.