703
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| 703 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 703 DCCIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1456 |
| Armenian calendar | 152 ԹՎ ՃԾԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5453 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 624–625 |
| Bengali calendar | 110 |
| Berber calendar | 1653 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1247 |
| Burmese calendar | 65 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6211–6212 |
| Chinese calendar | Nhâm DầnNăm (WaterTiger) 3400 or 3193 — to — Quý Mão năm (WaterRabbit) 3401 or 3194 |
| Coptic calendar | 419–420 |
| Discordian calendar | 1869 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 695–696 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4463–4464 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| -Vikram Samvat | 759–760 |
| -Shaka Samvat | 624–625 |
| -Kali Yuga | 3803–3804 |
| Holocene calendar | 10703 |
| Iranian calendar | 81–82 |
| Islamic calendar | 83–84 |
| Japanese calendar | Taihō3 ( đại bảo ３ năm ) |
| Javanese calendar | 595–596 |
| Julian calendar | 703 DCCIII |
| Korean calendar | 3036 |
| Minguo calendar | 1209 beforeROC Dân trước 1209 năm |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −765 |
| Seleucid era | 1014/1015AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1245–1246 |
| Tibetan calendar | Dương thủy hổ năm (male Water-Tiger) 829 or 448 or −324 — to — Âm thủy thỏ năm (female Water-Rabbit) 830 or 449 or −323 |
Year703(DCCIII) was acommon year starting on Monday(link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar,the 703rd year of theCommon Era(CE) andAnno Domini(AD) designations, the 703rd year of the1st millennium,the 3rd year of the8th century,and the 4th year of the700sdecade. The denomination 703 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]- Arab–Byzantine War:TheUmayyadarmy underAbdallah ibn Abd al-MalikcapturesMopsuestiainCiliciafrom the Byzantines, and refortifies it, making it the first majorMuslimstronghold in the area that will later become theThughur.[1][2]
- Musa ibn Nusayr,governor ofIfriqiya(westernLibya), builds a Muslim fleet to harass theByzantine navyand conquer the islands ofIbiza,Majorca,andMenorca(approximate date).
Europe
[edit]- Faroald II,duke ofSpoleto,attacks theExarchate of RavennainItaly,after the death of his fatherThrasimund I.KingAripert IIof theLombards,desiring good relations with theByzantine Empireandpapacy,refuses to assist him.
Britain
[edit]- High KingLoingsech mac Óengussoand his forces are routed during an invasion ofConnacht(Ireland). He is killed by the men of KingCellach mac Rogallaig(approximate date).
By topic
[edit]Religion
[edit]- Wilfrid,Anglo-Saxon bishop, travels toRomeagain, and is supported in his struggle to retain hisseeofYorkby thepope.On his way Wilfrid stops inFrisia(modernNetherlands), to visitWillibrord.[3]
- Elias IbecomesCatholicos of All Armenians.[2]
Births
[edit]- An Lushan,Chineserebel leader (approximate date)
- Shi Siming,general of theTang Dynasty(d.761)
Deaths
[edit]- January 13–Jitō,empress ofJapan(b.645)
- March 20–Wulfram,archbishop of Sens
- Ergica,king of theVisigoths(or701)
- Ermenilda of Ely,Anglo-Saxonabbess(approximate date)
- Loingsech mac Óengusso,high king ofIreland
- Thrasimund I,duke (dux) ofSpoleto
References
[edit]- ^Treadgold, Warren T. (1997),A History of the Byzantine State and Society,Stanford, CA:Stanford University Press, pp. 337–339,ISBN0-8047-2630-2
- ^abVenning, Timothy, ed. (2006).A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire.Palgrave Macmillan. p. 189.ISBN1-4039-1774-4.
- ^Levison England and the Continent pp. 50–51