AD 707
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Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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AD 707 by topic |
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Leaders |
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Gregorian calendar | 707 DCCVII |
Ab urbe condita | 1460 |
Armenian calendar | 156 ԹՎ ՃԾԶ |
Assyrian calendar | 5457 |
Balinese saka calendar | 628–629 |
Bengali calendar | 114 |
Berber calendar | 1657 |
Buddhist calendar | 1251 |
Burmese calendar | 69 |
Byzantine calendar | 6215–6216 |
Chinese calendar | Bính ngọNăm (FireHorse) 3404 or 3197 — to — Đinh Mùi năm (FireGoat) 3405 or 3198 |
Coptic calendar | 423–424 |
Discordian calendar | 1873 |
Ethiopian calendar | 699–700 |
Hebrew calendar | 4467–4468 |
Hindu calendars | |
-Vikram Samvat | 763–764 |
-Shaka Samvat | 628–629 |
-Kali Yuga | 3807–3808 |
Holocene calendar | 10707 |
Iranian calendar | 85–86 |
Islamic calendar | 88–89 |
Japanese calendar | Keiun4 ( khánh vân 4 năm ) |
Javanese calendar | 599–600 |
Julian calendar | 707 DCCVII |
Korean calendar | 3040 |
Minguo calendar | 1205 beforeROC Dân trước 1205 năm |
Nanakshahi calendar | −761 |
Seleucid era | 1018/1019AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1249–1250 |
Tibetan calendar | Dương hỏa mã năm (male Fire-Horse) 833 or 452 or −320 — to — Âm hỏa dương năm (female Fire-Goat) 834 or 453 or −319 |
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Year707(DCCVII) was acommon year starting on Saturday(link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar.The denomination 707 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:AnUmayyadarmy underMaslamah ibn Abd al-MalikinvadesAsia Minor,andlays siegetoTyana(Cappadocia). The fortress city resists, dragging thesiegethrough the winter and into708.[1]
Arabian Empire
[edit]- TheMuslim-Arabsconquer theBalearic Islandsin theMediterranean Sea(approximate date).
- The firstIslamichospital (bimaristan) is founded inDamascus(approximate date).
Asia
[edit]- July 18– EmperorMonmudies after a 10-year reign. He is succeeded by his auntGenmei,who becomes the 43rd empress ofJapan.She is the sister of former empressJitō,and the niece and wife of late emperorTenmu.
By topic
[edit]Religion
[edit]- October 18–Pope John VIIdies atRomeafter a 19-month reign. A prolongedsede vacanteexists, until the ratification of the election ofSisinniusby theExarch of Ravenna,in early 708.[2]
Births
[edit]- Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i,Muslimscholar(d.774)
- Theudoald,mayor of the palaceofAustrasia(or708)
Deaths
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- August 7–Li Chongjun,crown prince of the Tang dynasty
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- Abbo II,bishop ofMetz(approximate date)
- Hidulf,bishop ofTrier(approximate date)
- John Maron,Syriacmonkandpatriarch(b.628)
- Li Duozuo,general of theTang dynasty
- Wu Sansi,official of the Tang dynasty
References
[edit]- ^Treadgold, Warren T. (1997),A History of the Byzantine State and Society,Stanford, CA:Stanford University Press, p. 341,ISBN0-8047-2630-2
- ^Venning, Timothy, ed. (2006).A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire.Palgrave Macmillan. p.191.ISBN1-4039-1774-4.