Year 729 (DCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 729th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 729th year of the 1st millennium, the 29th year of the 8th century, and the 10th and last year of the 720s decade. The denomination 729 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium
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729 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar729
DCCXXIX
Ab urbe condita1482
Armenian calendar178
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Assyrian calendar5479
Balinese saka calendar650–651
Bengali calendar136
Berber calendar1679
Buddhist calendar1273
Burmese calendar91
Byzantine calendar6237–6238
Chinese calendar戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
3426 or 3219
    — to —
己巳年 (Earth Snake)
3427 or 3220
Coptic calendar445–446
Discordian calendar1895
Ethiopian calendar721–722
Hebrew calendar4489–4490
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat785–786
 - Shaka Samvat650–651
 - Kali Yuga3829–3830
Holocene calendar10729
Iranian calendar107–108
Islamic calendar110–111
Japanese calendarJinki 6 / Tenpyō 1
(天平元年)
Javanese calendar622–623
Julian calendar729
DCCXXIX
Korean calendar3062
Minguo calendar1183 before ROC
民前1183年
Nanakshahi calendar−739
Seleucid era1040/1041 AG
Thai solar calendar1271–1272
Tibetan calendar阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
855 or 474 or −298
    — to —
阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
856 or 475 or −297

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Food and drink

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  • Chinese eating sticks are introduced in the next 20 years in Japan, where people heretofore have used one-piece pincers. The Japanese call them hashi.


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References

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  1. ^ David Nicolle (2008). Poitiers AD 732, Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (p. 19). ISBN 978-184603-230-1
  2. ^ Wickham, Chris. Framing the Early Middle Ages. p. 366.