AD 707

This article is about the year 707. For other uses, see707 (disambiguation).

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

707 in variouscalendars

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

Map of theArab-Byzantinefrontier (8th century)

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

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Arab–Byzantine War:AnUmayyadarmy underMaslamah ibn Abd al-MalikinvadesAsia Minor,andlays siegetoTyana(Cappadocia). The fortress city resists, dragging thesiegethrough the winter and into708.

Arabian Empire

• TheMuslim-Arabsconquer theBalearic Islandsin theMediterranean Sea(approximate date).
• The firstIslamichospital (bimaristan) is founded inDamascus(approximate date).

Asia

• 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

Religion

• 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.

Births

• Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i,Muslimscholar(d.774)
• Theudoald,mayor of the palaceofAustrasia(or708)

Deaths

Emperor Monmu

• August 7–Li Chongjun,crown prince of the Tang dynasty

Pope John XII

• 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