701
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This article is about the year 701. For the number, see 701 (number). For other uses, see 701 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 670s 680s 690s – 700s – 710s 720s 730s |
| Years: | 698 699 700 – 701 – 702 703 704 |
| 701 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 701 DCCI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1454 |
| Armenian calendar | 150 ԹՎ ՃԾ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5451 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1143–-1142 |
| Bengali calendar | 108 |
| Berber calendar | 1651 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1245 |
| Burmese calendar | 63 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6209–6210 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚子年十一月十八日 (3337/3397-11-18) — to —
辛丑年十一月廿八日(3338/3398-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 417–418 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 693–694 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4461–4462 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 757–758 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 623–624 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3802–3803 |
| Holocene calendar | 10701 |
| Iranian calendar | 79–80 |
| Islamic calendar | 81–82 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 701 DCCI |
| Korean calendar | 3034 |
| Minguo calendar | 1211 before ROC 民前1211年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1244 |
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Year 701 (DCCI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 701 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- Wittiza succeeds his grandfather Ergica as king of the Visigoths.
- Liutpert succeeds his father Perctarit as king of the Lombards.
- Raginpert overthrows Liutpert and becomes king of the Lombards. He dies soon after, and his son Aripert succeeds him.
[edit] Asia
- The Code of Taihō is issued in Japan.
- January – Iraq: The rebel Umayyad general Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath takes Basra, but is subsequently defeated by Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf and his rebellion fails.[1]
- Mesopotamia: Muhammad ibn Marwan invades the Byzantine Armenian provinces east of the Euphrates; the local commander Baanes surrenders before the large Arab army and the population accepts a Muslim governor.[1][2]
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- October 30 – Pope John VI succeeds Pope Sergius I (died on 8/9 September) as the 85th Pope.[3]
[edit] Births
- Emperor Shōmu, emperor of Japan (d. 756)
- Li Bai (also Li Po), Chinese poet (d. 762)
- Wang Wei, Chinese poet, musician, painter, and chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 761)
[edit] Deaths
- September 8 – Pope Sergius I
- Raginpert, king of the Lombards
- Yeon Namsan, Goguryeo-Korean military leader who later served as an official in the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 639)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Venning, Timothy, ed. (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 188. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.
- ^ Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 339, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2, http://books.google.com/books?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC
- ^ Venning, Timothy, ed. (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 189. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.
