704
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This article is about the year 704. For the number (and other uses), see 704 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 670s 680s 690s – 700s – 710s 720s 730s |
| Years: | 701 702 703 – 704 – 705 706 707 |
| 704 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 704 DCCIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1457 |
| Armenian calendar | 153 ԹՎ ՃԾԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5454 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1140–-1139 |
| Bengali calendar | 111 |
| Berber calendar | 1654 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1248 |
| Burmese calendar | 66 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6212–6213 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸卯年十一月二十日 (3340/3400-11-20) — to —
甲辰年十二月初一日(3341/3401-12-1) |
| Coptic calendar | 420–421 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 696–697 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4464–4465 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 760–761 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 626–627 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3805–3806 |
| Holocene calendar | 10704 |
| Iranian calendar | 82–83 |
| Islamic calendar | 84–85 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3037 |
| Minguo calendar | 1208 before ROC 民前1208年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1247 |
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Year 704 (DCCIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 704 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
- Armenia: Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik invades Armenia to suppress the anti-Arab revolt.[1][2]
- Byzantine Empire: The Byzantine general Heraclius defeats and destroys an Umayyad army at Sisium.[1][2]
[edit] Europe
- Britain: Cenred succeeds to the throne of Mercia, after his uncle Æthelred abdicates to become abbot of Bardney.
- Byzantine Empire: The deposed Byzantine emperor Justinian II flees from his exile at Cherson to the Khazars. The Khazar khagan marries him to his daughter. The reigning Byzantine emperor Leontios bribes the khagan to surrender Justinian, but the latetr is warned by his wife and flees to the Bulgar Khanate, securing the assistance of the Bulgarian ruler Tervel (autumn).[1][3]
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[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Venning, Timothy, ed (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 189. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 339–340, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2, http://books.google.com/books?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC
