715
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This article is about the year 715. For the number (and other uses), see 715 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 680s 690s 700s – 710s – 720s 730s 740s |
| Years: | 712 713 714 – 715 – 716 717 718 |
| 715 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 715 DCCXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1468 |
| Armenian calendar | 164 ԹՎ ՃԿԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5465 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1129–-1128 |
| Bengali calendar | 122 |
| Berber calendar | 1665 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1259 |
| Burmese calendar | 77 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6223–6224 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲寅年十一月廿一日 (3351/3411-11-21) — to —
乙卯年十二月初一日(3352/3412-12-1) |
| Coptic calendar | 431–432 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 707–708 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4475–4476 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 771–772 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 637–638 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3816–3817 |
| Holocene calendar | 10715 |
| Iranian calendar | 93–94 |
| Islamic calendar | 96–97 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3048 |
| Minguo calendar | 1197 before ROC 民前1197年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1258 |
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Year 715 (DCCXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 715 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
- September 26 – Battle of Compiègne: Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald, becoming mayor of the palace of Neustria and Burgundy.
[edit] Asia
- Empress Gemmei of Japan is succeeded by Empress Genshō.
- A major earthquake hits Turkey.[1]
- Umayyad caliph al-Walid I ibn Abd al-Malik is succeeded by Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- King Nechtan invites the Northumbrian clergy to establish Christianity amongst the Picts.
- May 19 – Pope Gregory II succeeds Pope Constantine as the 89th pope.
- August 11 – Germanus is translated from the bishopric of Cyzicus to the Patriarch of Constantinople.
- Saint Boniface sets out on a missionary expedition to the Frisians.
- The Grand Mosque of Damascus is built over the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.[2]
- Saint Winnin, an Irish monk, lands at the mouth of the River Garnock, where he establishes a community or cell of monks, termed cella or "Kil" in Gaelic.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- April 9 – Pope Constantine
- Muhammad bin Qasim, an Umayyad general who conquered the Sindh and Punjab regions
