705

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''Alternate meanings: Area code 705; Project 705; Life 705''

Contents

Events

By Place

Asia

Byzantine Empire

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

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

★ January 11 — Pope John VI

★ Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph

★ December 16 — Empress Wu Zetian