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In the 730s Leo III carried out extensive repairs of the Theodosian walls, which had been damaged by frequent and violent attacks ; this work was financed by a special tax on all the subjects of the Empire.
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According to a story recorded by the 16th century antiquarian John Leland, and derived by him from a now lost book in the possession of the Earls of Rutland at Belvoir Castle, there was once a King Alfred III of Mercia, who reigned in the 730s.
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One historian described this title as " a phrase which can only be interpreted as a Latin rendering of the English title Bretwalda "; but it may be that at that time these titles would not have been acknowledged much beyond Worcester, where this and other documents from the 730s that use similar titles were written.
A number of Mercians were appointed to Canterbury during the 730s and 740s, which suggests that Mercian authority was expanding into Kent.
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In the 730s the Arab conquerors of Spain, who had also subjugated Septimania, began advancing northwards into central Francia and the Loire valley.
Boniface had begun his reform attempts of the Frankish church in the 730s, and by the 740s had found a kindred spirit in Carloman, the more religiously oriented of Charles Martel's two sons who divided their father's domain.
730s and been
It has long been held that the dominance of the Carolingian military was based on a " cavalry revolution " led by Charles Martel in 730s.
Structures are mostly built of large stone blocks laid with no mortar. mortarless construction ( detail ) The city dates from the Maya Classic era, flourishing from the AD 730s to the 890s, and seems to have been completely abandoned soon after.
730s and by
Domnall Brecc's policy appears to have died with him, in 642, at his final, and fatal, defeat by Eugein map Beli of Alt Clut at Strathcarron, for as late as the 730s, armies and fleets from Dál Riata fought alongside the Uí Néill.
The long period of instability in Dál Riata was only ended by the conquest of the kingdom by Óengus mac Fergusa, king of the Picts, in the 730s.
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Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.
Bihar was a Khagan of the Khazars during the 730s.
Whether or not he owed his appointment to Æthelbald, Nothhelm was one of a number of Mercians who became Archbishop of Canterbury during the 730s and 740s, during a time of expanding Mercian influence.
He was one of a number of Mercians who were appointed to Canterbury during the 730s and 740s.
Tar ' mach was a Khazar general, active in the Khazar – Arab Wars of the 720s and 730s CE.
Parsbit, also known as Prisbit, was a Khazar noblewoman active in the 730s CE.
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Conscious of the ongoing Lombard threat, Gregory undertook and completed the restoration of the Walls of Rome during the early 730s.
The obvious conclusion is that whoever ruled the petty kingdoms of Dál Riata after its defeat and conquest in the 730s, only Áed Find and his brother Fergus drew the least attention of the chroniclers in Iona and Ireland.
The first person is a presumed king of Dál Riata in the late 730s.
No king in Dál Riata of that name is recorded in the Irish annals in the early 730s.
Eógan mac Muiredaig is named in some Scots sources as a king of Dál Riata, probably in the 730s.
In the 730s, Óengus fought against Dál Riata whose traditional overlords and protectors in Ireland, the Cenél Conaill, were much weakened at this time.
Leo and III
Angilbert was the Homer of the emperor's literary circle, and was the probable author of an epic, of which the fragment which has been preserved describes the life at the palace and the meeting between Charlemagne and Leo III.
The Byzantine emperor Leo III after his victory over Arab besiegers in 740 renamed the city Nicopolis ( Greek for " city of victory ").
This was followed in the east by the Ecloga of Leo III the Isaurian ( 740 ) and the Basilica of Basil I ( 878 ).
The emperor Leo III issued a decree in 726 against images, and ordered the destruction of a statue of Christ over one of the doors of the Chalke, an act that was fiercely resisted by the citizens.
The canonization of Saint Udalric, Bishop of Augsburg, by Pope John XV in 999 is the first undoubted example of a papal canonization of a saint from outside Rome ( Some historians maintain that the first such canonization was that of Saint Swibert by Pope Leo III in 804 ).
The first computer using a multiprogramming system was the British Leo III owned by J. Lyons and Co .. Several different programs in batch were loaded in the computer memory, and the first one began to run.
* 800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
The Holy Roman Empire looked to Charlemagne, Charles the Great, King of the Franks, as its founder, who had been crowned Emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day in 800 by Pope Leo III.
Hoping to avoid the sack of Rome herself, Emperor Valentinian III sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Trigetius, as well as the Bishop of Rome Leo I, who met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua, and obtained from him the promise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the emperor.
In recognition of his successes and his political support for the Papacy, Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Romans, or Roman Emperor in the West, by Pope Leo III in 800.
In that year the iconoclast Byzantine emperor Leo III, angered by archbishops of the region because they had supported Rome in the Iconoclastic Controversy, detached the church of the province from the Roman pope and placed it under the patriarch of Constantinople.
The Iconoclastic Period began when images were banned by Emperor Leo III the Isaurian sometime between 726 and 730.
In the Byzantine Empire, iconoclasm began with Emperor Leo III.
Sometime between 726 and 730, the Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian began the iconoclast campaign.
* 816 – Pope Leo III ( b. 750 )
** Pope Leo III
** Pope Leo III
In 816, Pope Stephen IV, who had succeeded Leo III, visited Reims and again crowned Louis.
Leo III the Isaurian also known as the Syrian ( Greek: Λέων Γ ΄, Leōn III ), ( c. 685 – 18 June 741 ) was Byzantine Emperor from 717 until his death in 741.
On his deposition Leo joined with his colleague Artabasdus, the stratēgos of the Armeniac theme, in conspiring to overthrow the new Emperor Theodosius III.
A Leo III base gold solidus, minted in Rome.
Leo entered Constantinople on 25 March 717 and forced the abdication of Theodosios III, becoming emperor as Leo III.
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