747. Great plague in Constantinople.
748. Venetian merchants having purchased slaves to be sold in Africa to the Saracens, Pope Zachary forbids the traffic.
Virgilius, a priest, convicted of heresy for believing in the existence of the antipodes.
750. End of the Ommiad and rise of the Abbasside dynasty of caliphs; all the family of the former, except Abderrahman, put to death.
751. Pépin the Short founds the Carlovingian dynasty of the Franks. See [FOUNDING OF THE CARLOVINGIAN DYNASTY], iv, 324.
752. Extinction of the exarchate of Ravenna by the Lombards under Astolphus.
753. Pope Stephen II journeys to France.
754. Pépin the Short is crowned by Stephen II. See [FOUNDING OF THE CARLOVINGIAN DYNASTY], iv, 324.
755. Pépin the Short defeats Astolphus, King of the Lombards, and invests Pope Stephen II with Ravenna, and other places taken from the Lombards. The Papal States founded.
St. Boniface is martyred in Germany.