706
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Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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706 by topic |
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Gregorian calendar | 706 DCCVI |
Ab urbe condita | 1459 |
Armenian calendar | 155 ԹՎ ՃԾԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 5456 |
Balinese saka calendar | 627–628 |
Bengali calendar | 113 |
Berber calendar | 1656 |
Buddhist calendar | 1250 |
Burmese calendar | 68 |
Byzantine calendar | 6214–6215 |
Chinese calendar | Ất tịNăm (WoodSnake) 3403 or 3196 — to — Bính ngọ năm (FireHorse) 3404 or 3197 |
Coptic calendar | 422–423 |
Discordian calendar | 1872 |
Ethiopian calendar | 698–699 |
Hebrew calendar | 4466–4467 |
Hindu calendars | |
-Vikram Samvat | 762–763 |
-Shaka Samvat | 627–628 |
-Kali Yuga | 3806–3807 |
Holocene calendar | 10706 |
Iranian calendar | 84–85 |
Islamic calendar | 87–88 |
Japanese calendar | Keiun3 ( khánh vân 3 năm ) |
Javanese calendar | 598–599 |
Julian calendar | 706 DCCVI |
Korean calendar | 3039 |
Minguo calendar | 1206 beforeROC Dân trước 1206 năm |
Nanakshahi calendar | −762 |
Seleucid era | 1017/1018AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1248–1249 |
Tibetan calendar | Âm mộc xà năm (female Wood-Snake) 832 or 451 or −321 — to — Dương hỏa mã năm (male Fire-Horse) 833 or 452 or −320 |
Year706(DCCVI) was acommon year starting on Friday(link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar,the 706th year of theCommon Era(CE) andAnno Domini(AD) designations, the 706th year of the1st millennium,the 6th year of the8th century,and the 7th year of the700sdecade. The denomination 706 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when theAnno Dominicalendar erabecame the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
[edit]By place
[edit]Byzantine Empire
[edit]- February 15– EmperorJustinian IIpresides over thepublic humiliationof his predecessors,LeontiosandTiberios III,and their chief associates in theHippodrome of Constantinople,after which they are executed. PatriarchKallinikos Iis also deposed,blindedand exiled toRome,and succeeded byKyros.[1]
Europe
[edit]- DukeCorvulus of Friuliis arrested by KingAripert IIof theLombards,and has his eyes gouged out. He is replaced byPemmo,who begins a war against theSlavsofCarinthia(modernAustria).
China
[edit]- July 2 – EmperorZhong Zonghas the remains of his mother and recently deceased ruling empressWu Zetian,her sonLi Xian,her grandsonLi Chongrun,and granddaughterLi Xianhui,all interred in the sametombcomplex as his father and Wu Zetian's husbandGao Zong,outsideChang'an,known as theQianling Mausoleum,located on Mount Liang, which will then remain unopened until1960.
By topic
[edit]Religion
[edit]- Berhtwald,archbishop of Canterbury,is obliged by thepope's insistence to call the Synod ofNidd(Northumbria).
- CaliphAl-Walid Icommissions the construction of theGreat Mosque of Damascus(Syria).
Births
[edit]- Al-Walid II,Muslim caliph (d.744)
- Eoppa,king ofWessex(d.781)
- Fujiwara no Nakamaro,Japanese statesman (d.764)
- Han Gan,Chinese painter (d.783)
- Theudoald,nephew of the Frankish ruler Charles Martel (d.741)
Deaths
[edit]- February 15–Leontios,Byzantine emperor
- February 15 –Tiberios III,Byzantine emperor
- Gisulf I,duke ofBenevento
- Kallinikos I,patriarch of Constantinople(or705)
- Shenxiu,ChineseZen Buddhistpatriarch
- Zhang Jianzhi,official of theTang dynasty(b.625)
References
[edit]- ^Venning, Timothy, ed. (2006).A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire.Palgrave Macmillan. p.190.ISBN1-4039-1774-4.