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year
Part of
760s
Followed by
767
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765
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766
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Category:766
point in time
0766-01-01
category for births in this time period
Category:766 births
category for deaths in this time period
Category:766 deaths

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Encyclopedic overview

The "Round City" of Baghdad

Year 766 (DCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 766th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 766th year of the 1st millennium, the 66th year of the 8th century, and the 7th year of the 760s decade. The denomination 766 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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