768

Events

• Charles (Charlemagne) and Carloman divide the Frankish kingdom after the death of their father Pippin the Short.
• The date, according to the Annales Cambriae, when Wales began to celebrate Easter on the Roman date, at the teaching of Elbodugus.
• August 1: Stephen IV becomes pope.
• Deventer is founded (approximate date).
• Aurelio succeeds Fruela I as king of Asturias.

Births

Deaths

• Pepin the short, King of the Franks, father of Charlemagne (b. 714)
• Fruela I of Asturias