703
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This article is about the year 703. For the number (and other uses), see 703 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 670s 680s 690s – 700s – 710s 720s 730s |
| Years: | 700 701 702 – 703 – 704 705 706 |
| 703 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 703 DCCIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1456 |
| Armenian calendar | 152 ԹՎ ՃԾԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5453 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1141–-1140 |
| Bengali calendar | 110 |
| Berber calendar | 1653 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1247 |
| Burmese calendar | 65 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6211–6212 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬寅年十二月初十日 (3339/3399-12-10) — to —
癸卯年十一月十九日(3340/3400-11-19) |
| Coptic calendar | 419–420 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 695–696 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4463–4464 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 759–760 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 625–626 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3804–3805 |
| Holocene calendar | 10703 |
| Iranian calendar | 81–82 |
| Islamic calendar | 83–84 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 703 DCCIII |
| Korean calendar | 3036 |
| Minguo calendar | 1209 before ROC 民前1209年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1246 |
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Year 703 (DCCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 703 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] Asia
- Byzantine Empire: Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik captures Mopsuestia in Cilicia from the Byzantines and refortifies it, making it the first Muslim base in the area that will later become the Thughur.[1][2]
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- Elias I becomes Catholicos of Armenia.[2]
[edit] Births
- An Lushan, military leader during the Tang Dynasty (d. 757)
[edit] Deaths
- Empress Jitō of Japan (b. 645)
[edit] References
- ^ Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 337–339, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2, http://books.google.com/books?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC
- ^ a b Venning, Timothy, ed. (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 189. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.
