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- This article is about the year 717. For the aircraft, see Boeing 717. For other uses of this term, see 717 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 680s 690s 700s – 710s – 720s 730s 740s |
| Years: | 714 715 716 – 717 – 718 719 720 |
| 717 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 717 DCCXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1470 |
| Armenian calendar | 166 ԹՎ ՃԿԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1127 – -1126 |
| Berber calendar | 1667 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1261 |
| Burmese calendar | 79 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6225 – 6226 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙辰年十二月十四日 (3353/3413-12-14) — to —
丁巳年十一月廿四日(3354/3414-11-24) |
| Coptic calendar | 433 – 434 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 709 – 710 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4477 – 4478 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 772 – 773 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 639 – 640 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3818 – 3819 |
| Holocene calendar | 10717 |
| Iranian calendar | 95 – 96 |
| Islamic calendar | 98 – 99 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3050 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1260 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- March 21—The Battle of Vincy is fought between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- March 25—Leo III usurps the throne of Byzantium.
- August 15—Maslamah begins the Second Arab siege of Constantinople. The siege lasts for nearly a year.
[edit] Asia
- December 24—An earthquake shakes many places in northern Syria, and destroys the Old Church of Edessa.
- Umayyad caliph al-Walid I ibn Abd al-Malik is succeeded by Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik.
- Hoshi Ryokan, world's longest running business, formed in Japan.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- King Nechtan IV of the Picts expels the monks from the Scottish island of Iona.
[edit] Births
- Rabi’ah al-Adawiyya, classical Islamic poetess
[edit] Deaths
- Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph
