770s

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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

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

  • [1]History of Indian Mathematics, retrieved 16:40 26 August 2005
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