8th century3 events3 regions
732
In 732: 3 events across 3 regions, including Battle of Tours, The Canggal inscription: Sanjaya and the rise of Mataram, The Orkhon inscriptions: memorial stelae of Kül Tegin and Bilge Qaghan.
Events
Western and Central Europe
- Battle of Tours10 October 732
Central and Northern Asia
- The Orkhon inscriptions: memorial stelae of Kül Tegin and Bilge Qaghan1 August 732 – 735
Southeast Asia and Oceania
Still going on
Processes that began earlier and continued through this period
- Nazca culture and the Nazca Linesbetween 200 and 100 BC – between 500 and 800 · Latin America
- Basketmaker III: pottery, beans and the bow on the Colorado Plateauc. 500 – c. 750 · North America
- Second Arab–Khazar War: from Balanjar to Marwan’s campaign to the Volga722–737 · Eastern Europe
- Indian kings repel the Arab raids from Sind: Nagabhata I and the battle of Navsari723 – between 738 and 739 · South Asia
- Reign of Emperor Xuanzong: the Kaiyuan and Tianbao eras8 September 712 – 12 August 756 · East Asia
- Mission of Boniface in Germany15 May 719 – 5 June 754 · Western and Central Europe
- Lalitaditya Muktapida rules Kashmir: the Sun temple of Martandbetween 724 and 725 – between 760 and 761 · South Asia
- The Late Woodland period in eastern North Americac. 500 – c. 1000 · North America
- Volyntsevo culture: the Slavs of the Dnieper Left Bank in the Khazar agebetween 700 and 750 – between 813 and 833 · Eastern Europe
- Byzantine Iconoclasmbetween 726 and 730 – 11 March 843 · Balkans and Anatolia
- Wari culture and the Middle Horizon state in the Central Andesc. 600 – c. 1000 · Latin America
- Tiwanaku culture at its height by Lake Titicacac. 600 – c. 1000 · Latin America
- Plum Bayou Mounds: a planned ceremonial centre in the Arkansas valleyc. 650 – c. 1050 · North America