| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 740s 750s 760s – 770s – 780s 790s 800s |
| Years: | 770 771 772 773 774 775 776 777 778 779 |
| Categories: | Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments |
The 770s decade ran from January 1, 770, to December 31, 779.
Events and trends
- The famous King Khalif Abbasid Al Mansoor (712–775) founded Baghdad, which is situated on the banks of the Tigris, and made it a center of learning. The King invited a scholar of Ujjain by the name of Kanka in 770 AD. Kanka used the Brahma Sphuta Siddhanta to explain the Hindu system of arithmetic astronomy.
Significant people
Sources
- History of Indian Mathematics, retrieved 16:40 26 August 2005
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