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Contents

Events

By Place

Europe

Byzantine Empire

Asia

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ March 21 — Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.

Byzantine Empire

★ March 25 — Leo III usurps the throne of Byzantium

★ August 15 — Maslama begins the Second Arab siege of Constantinople. The siege lasts for nearly a year.

Asia

★ December 24 — An earthquake shakes many places in northern Syria, and destroys the Old Church of Edessa.

★ Umayyad caliph al-Walid I ibn Abd al-Malik succeeded by Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik

By Topic

Religion

★ The Pictish king Nechtan son of Derile expels the monks from the Scottish island of Iona

Births

Rabi’ah al-Adawiyya — classical Islamic poetess

Deaths

Umayyad caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik