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	Politics
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	Establishments – Disestablishments

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	720s 730s 740s – 750s – 760s 770s 780s
Years:	748 749 750 – 751 – 752 753 754

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Pepin the Short is elected as king of the Franks by the Frankish nobility, marking the end of the Merovingian and beginning of the Carolingian dynasty.
The Lombard king Aistulf captures Ravenna and the Romagna, ending the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna.

Arabian armies defeat Chinese Tang troops in the Battle of Talas near Samarkand.
The Japanese poetry anthology Kaifūsō is assembled.
Like the storm of 721, the storm of this year at the southern Chinese seaport of Yangzhou reportedly destroys over 1,000 ships engaged in canal and river traffic.

The oldest surviving printed document, a Buddhist scripture, is printed in Korea.
Theodore succeeds Theophylact as Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.
Silla minister Gim Daeseong orders construction to begin on the Bulguksa and Seokguram temples at Gyeongju.