721
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This article is about the year 721. For the number (and other uses), see 721 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 690s 700s 710s – 720s – 730s 740s 750s |
| Years: | 718 719 720 – 721 – 722 723 724 |
| 721 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 721 DCCXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1474 |
| Armenian calendar | 170 ԹՎ ՃՀ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5471 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1123–-1122 |
| Bengali calendar | 128 |
| Berber calendar | 1671 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1265 |
| Burmese calendar | 83 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6229–6230 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚申年十一月廿九日 (3357/3417-11-29) — to —
辛酉年十二月初九日(3358/3418-12-9) |
| Coptic calendar | 437–438 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 713–714 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4481–4482 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 777–778 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 643–644 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3822–3823 |
| Holocene calendar | 10721 |
| Iranian calendar | 99–100 |
| Islamic calendar | 102–103 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3054 |
| Minguo calendar | 1191 before ROC 民前1191年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1264 |
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Year 721 (DCCXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 721 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] Byzantine Empire
- Former Byzantine emperor Anastasius II leads a revolt against emperor Leo III.
[edit] Europe
- Theuderic IV succeeds Chilperic II as king of the Franks.
- June 9 – Battle of Toulouse: after besieging Toulouse for three months, Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani, the governor of Muslim Spain (al-Andalus), is defeated by Duke Odo of Aquitaine, preventing an Arab invasion of Gaul.
- Anbasa ibn Suhaim Al Kalbi is appointed governor of Al-Andalus.
- Prague is founded (according to legend) by the Princess Libuše and her husband Přemysl, founder of the dynasty with the same name.
[edit] China
- Rains and heavy storms around the southern seaport of Yangzhou reportedly destroy over 1,000 ships and boats, in the usual congested canal and river traffic of the Tang Dynasty era.
[edit] Births
- Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan (a.k.a. Geber), Arabian alchemist (approximate date)
- Al-Saffah, first Abbasid caliph (d. 754)
[edit] Deaths
- Anastasius II, Byzantine Emperor
- Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne (698–721) and presumed author of the Lindisfarne Gospels
- Yao Chong, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (born 650)
- Liu Zhiji, Chinese historian (born 661)
- Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani, the Arab governor general of Muslim Spain.
- Khan Tervel, Bulgaria Khan
