706

706 in variouscalendars
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

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century; 8th century; 9th century;
Decades:	680s; 690s; 700s; 710s; 720s;
Years:	703; 704; 705; 706; 707; 708; 709;

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 Domini calendar erabecame the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

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]

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).

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.

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).