709
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This article is about the year 709. For the number (and other uses), see 709 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 670s 680s 690s – 700s – 710s 720s 730s |
| Years: | 706 707 708 – 709 – 710 711 712 |
| 709 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 709 DCCIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1462 |
| Armenian calendar | 158 ԹՎ ՃԾԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5459 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1135–-1134 |
| Bengali calendar | 116 |
| Berber calendar | 1659 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1253 |
| Burmese calendar | 71 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6217–6218 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊申年十一月十六日 (3345/3405-11-16) — to —
己酉年十一月廿六日(3346/3406-11-26) |
| Coptic calendar | 425–426 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 701–702 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4469–4470 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 765–766 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 631–632 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3810–3811 |
| Holocene calendar | 10709 |
| Iranian calendar | 87–88 |
| Islamic calendar | 90–91 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3042 |
| Minguo calendar | 1203 before ROC 民前1203年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1252 |
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Year 709 (DCCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 709 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
- Saelred becomes king of Essex.
- Ceolred becomes king of Mercia, after his cousin Cenred abdicates to become a monk in Rome.
- Byzantine Empire: An Umayyad army under Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik raids Isauria.[1]
[edit] By topic
[edit] Environmental change
- A storm separates the Channel Islands of Jethou and Herm.
[edit] Religion
- Byzantine emperor Justinian II sends a fleet to Italy under the patrikios Theodore, to intervene in the dispute between Pope Constantine and the archbishop Felix of Ravenna, who claimed to be independent of the pope's authority. Theodore arrests Felix and other Italian leaders and deports them to Constantinople, from where they were exiled to Cherson.[2][3]
[edit] Births
- Emperor Kōnin of Japan (d. 782)
- Yan Zhenqing, renowned Chinese calligrapher and governor (d. 785)
- Mazu Daoyi, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 788)
- Yaxun B'alam IV, king of Yaxchilan (d. 768)
[edit] Deaths
- January 9 – Saint Adrian of Canterbury
- April 24 – Wilfrid, English archbishop and saint
- May 25 – Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne
[edit] References
- ^ Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 341, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2, http://books.google.com/books?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC
- ^ Venning, Timothy, ed (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 191–192. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.
- ^ Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 938, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2, http://books.google.com/books?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC
