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Contents

Events

By Place

Europe

Byzantine Empire

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ After an interregnum of seven years, Childeric III re-succeeded to the throne of the Frankish Empire as the last king (till 751) of the figurehead Merovingian dynasty. Power remained firmly in the hands of the ''major domus'', currently Pepin the Short.

Byzantine Empire

★ Constantine V re-ascends the throne of the Byzantine Empire.

Asia

★ Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (724–743) succeeded by al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik (743 – 744).

Births

Deaths

★ January 31 — Muhammad al-Baqir, Shia Imam (b. 676)

★ February 6 -- Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph

★ Theudimer, also known as ''Tudmir''