Buddha, detail of a wall painting in Cave 217, Dunhuang (China), is made during the Tang Dynasty (approximate date). Food and drink In China during the Tang Dynasty, a bargeload of tea (a medicinal herb) comes up the Grand Canal to Luoyang, from Zhejiang (approximate date). Births January 25 – Leo IV, Byzantine emperor (d. 780) Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf, Abbasid poet (d. 809) Abd al-Malik ibn Salih, Abbasid general (d. 812) Arno, archbishop of Salzburg (approximate date) Bermudo I, king of Asturias (approximate date) Clement, Irish scholar and saint (approximate date) Eigil of Fulda, Bavarian abbot (approximate date) Hildegrim, bishop of Châlons (approximate date) Leo III, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 816) Ragnvald Sigurdsson, great-grandfather to Harald Hårfagre Sawara, Japanese prince (approximate date) Theodulf, bishop of Orléans (or 760) Wu Shaocheng, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 810) Deaths January 25 – Ibrahim ibn al-Walid, Umayyad caliph August 6 – Marwan II, ruling Umayyad caliph (b. 688) Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad prince (or 749) Agilulfus, bishop of Cologne (approximate date) Al-Abbas ibn al-Walid, Umayyad prince and general Basil the Confessor, Eastern Orthodox saint Boruth, prince (knyaz) of Carantania (approximate date) Bressal mac Áedo Róin, Dál Fiatach king of Ulaid Burchard, bishop of Würzburg (approximate date) Himelin, Scottish priest (approximate date) Inreachtach mac Dluthach, king of Uí Maine (Ireland) Irene of Khazaria, Byzantine empress (approximate date) Isonokami no Otomaro, Japanese nobleman Veborg, Scandinavian shieldmaiden (approximate date) References External links