750

In 750: 5 events across 4 regions, including Abbasid Revolution, Basketmaker III: pottery, beans and the bow on the Colorado Plateau, Tianbao War: Nanzhao destroys the Tang armies.

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• Nazca culture and the Nazca Linesbetween 200 and 100 BC – between 500 and 800 · Latin America
• 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
• Emperor Shōmu’s Great Buddha of Tōdai-ji6 November 743 – 26 May 752 · East Asia
• The Late Woodland period in eastern North Americac. 500 – c. 1000 · North America
• Abu Hanifa and Malik: the oldest surviving Sunni schools of lawbetween 737 and 738 – 795 · Middle East and Egypt
• 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