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| 751 |
| | | Skilled Chinese paper-makers are captured by the Arabs - beginning the slow westward transmission of the technology of paper | |
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| 751 |
| | | Muscat and Oman establish a tradition of spiritual rule by elected imams | |
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| 753 |
| | | Pope Stephen II anoints Pepin III and his two sons (one of them Charlemagne) in the abbey church of St Denis | |
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| 756 |
| | | Abd-ar-Rahman, escaping from the massacre of his family in Syria, establishes a new Umayyad dynasty at Cordoba | |
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| 756 |
| | | Pepin III, after recovering Byzantine territories in Italy from the Lombards, hands control of the region to the pope in Rome | |
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| 762 |
| | | The Abbasid caliphs create Baghdad as a new capital city on the Tigris | |
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| 768 |
| | | The empress of Japan, in a remarkable start to the story of printing, commissions a million copies of a Buddhist charm | |
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| 768 |
| | | On the death of Pepin III, the empire of the Franks is divided between his two sons - Charlemagne and his younger brother, Carloman | |
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| 771 |
| | | On the death of his brother, Charlemagne inherits the entire kingdom of the Franks | |
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| 772 |
| | | Charlemagne destroys a great Saxon shrine, the Irminsul - the start of a 30-year campaign against his pagan neighbours in what is now Germany | |
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