Decades: 700s 710s 720s 730s 740s - 750s - 760s 770s 780s 790s 800s

Years: 746 747 748 749 750 751 752 753 754 755 756

• Pippin the Short is elected as king of the Franks by the Frankish nobility. 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 defeated Tang troops in the Battle of Talas.
• Theodore succeeds Theophylact as Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch

• Carloman, king of the Franks

• June 29 - Theophylact, Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch
• Childeric III, king of the Franks (approximate date)