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''Alternate meanings:
Area code 705;
Project 705;
Life 705''
Events
By Place
Asia
★
February 20 — In a
coup d'état, Chinese Chancellor
Zhang Jianzhi murdered the Zhang brothers and restored
Emperor Zhongzong. This marks the end of the short-lived
Zhou Dynasty in
China
★ Beginning of a long period of fighting between
Trebizond and the
Arabs
★
Umayyad caliph
Abd al-Malik succeeded by
al-Walid I ibn Abd al-Malik.
Byzantine Empire
★ Khan
Tervel of the
Bulgars attacks
Constantinople in support of the exiled
Justinian II.
By Topic
Religion
★
March 1 —
Pope John VII succeeds
Pope John VI as the 86th
pope.
★ Work starts on the
Grand Mosque of Damascus.
Births
★
Amoghavajra, Chinese translator and Buddhist (d.
774)
Deaths
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January 11 —
Pope John VI
★
Abd al-Malik,
Umayyad caliph
★
December 16 —
Empress Wu Zetian