720
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This article is about the year 720. For the aircraft, see Boeing 720. For other uses of this term, see 720 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 690s 700s 710s – 720s – 730s 740s 750s |
| Years: | 717 718 719 – 720 – 721 722 723 |
| 720 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 720 DCCXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1473 |
| Armenian calendar | 169 ԹՎ ՃԿԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1124 – -1123 |
| Bengali calendar | 127 |
| Berber calendar | 1670 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1264 |
| Burmese calendar | 82 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6228 – 6229 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年十一月十七日 (3356/3416-11-17) — to —
庚申年十一月廿八日(3357/3417-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 436 – 437 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 712 – 713 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4480 – 4481 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 775 – 776 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 642 – 643 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3821 – 3822 |
| Holocene calendar | 10720 |
| Iranian calendar | 98 – 99 |
| Islamic calendar | 101 – 102 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3053 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1263 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Asia
- The Nihon Shoki (日本書紀), one of the oldest history books in Japan, is completed.
- Umayyad caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz is succeeded by Yazid II ibn Abd al-Malik.
- July 30—In the Tang Dynasty Chinese capital of Chang'an, the walls of a gated city ward collapse during the night, which unexpectedly form a large pool out in the open. This is most likely caused by a sinkhole created when ground water eroded the limestone bedrock beneath. As a consequence of this, more than 500 homes are destroyed (Benn, 50).
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- The Byzantine emperor Leo III the Isaurian orders the execution of the ex-emperor Anastasius II.
[edit] Births
- Bertrada of Laon, wife of Pippin III (d. 783)
- Pope Stephen III (d. 772)
- Baizhang, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 814)
[edit] Deaths
- Sainte Odile, patron saint of Alsace
- Tariq ibn Ziyad, Moorish general
- Yeh Fa-shan
