742

Asia

 * Chinese poet is presented before the emperor and given a position in the Imperial court. (approximate date)
 * is Byzantine Emperor until the capital is stormed by, who regains control and resumes the suppression of image-worship.
 * begins to favor over, adopting the new reign title Tianbao ('Heavenly Treasures') to indicate his divine mandate.
 * For the  of the Chinese capital city  and its  of Jingzhou Fu (including small towns in the vicinity), the  records that in this year there were 362,921 registered families with 1,960,188 persons.
 * In China, the total number of enlisted troops in the Tang armies had risen to about half a million due to Emperor Xuanzong's earlier reforms.
 * China's population c. 50 millions.

Africa

 * The Arabs suppress a revolt of the and the.

Europe

 * absorbs the independent duchies of and  into his kingdom.

Religion

 * establishes the abbey of . (or 744?)
 * After a forty-year vacancy, becomes  at the suggestion of.
 * , chancellor of, is appointed and embarks on a reorganisation of the Frankish church.

Births

 * , king and emperor of the (disputed date)