711
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This article is about the year 711. For the number, see 711 (number). For the convenience store, see 7-Eleven. For other uses, see 711 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 680s 690s 700s – 710s – 720s 730s 740s |
| Years: | 708 709 710 – 711 – 712 713 714 |
| 711 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 711 DCCXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1464 |
| Armenian calendar | 160 ԹՎ ՃԿ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5461 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1133–-1132 |
| Bengali calendar | 118 |
| Berber calendar | 1661 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1255 |
| Burmese calendar | 73 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6219–6220 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚戌年十二月初八日 (3347/3407-12-8) — to —
辛亥年十一月十八日(3348/3408-11-18) |
| Coptic calendar | 427–428 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 703–704 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4471–4472 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 767–768 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 633–634 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3812–3813 |
| Holocene calendar | 10711 |
| Iranian calendar | 89–90 |
| Islamic calendar | 92–93 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 711 DCCXI |
| Korean calendar | 3044 |
| Minguo calendar | 1201 before ROC 民前1201年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1254 |
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Year 711 (DCCXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 711 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
- April 30 – Ummayad troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar, and begin their invasion of the Iberian peninsula and conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom (See Moors, Al-Andalus, and Umayyad conquest of Hispania).
- July 19 – Battle of Guadalete: Ummayad Moors' victory over the Visigothic army. Visigothic king Roderic (Rodrigo in Spanish and Portuguese) dies in the battle.
- Childebert III died and is succeeded by Dagobert III as king of Austrasia.
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- Philippicus incites a revolt against Justinian II, and upon the latter's death declares himself Byzantine Emperor.
[edit] Asia
- After pirates plunder an Arab ship near the mouth of the Indus River, Arabs led by Muhammad bin Qasim invade India with 6,000 horses, establishing a sultanate in Sindh.
- Reconstruction of the Horyuji Temple in Japan ends.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- July – Roderick, king of the Visigoths
- December – Justinian II, Byzantine emperor (assassinated) (b. 669)
