724

This article is about the year 724. For the number (and other uses), see 724 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	690s  700s  710s  – 720s –  730s  740s  750s
Years:	721 722 723 – 724 – 725 726 727

724 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

724 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	724 DCCXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1477
Armenian calendar	173 ԹՎ ՃՀԳ
Assyrian calendar	5474
Bahá'í calendar	-1120–-1119
Bengali calendar	131
Berber calendar	1674
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1268
Burmese calendar	86
Byzantine calendar	6232–6233
Chinese calendar	癸亥年十二月初一日 (3360/3420-12-1) — to — 甲子年十二月十一日 (3361/3421-12-11)
Coptic calendar	440–441
Ethiopian calendar	716–717
Hebrew calendar	4484–4485
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	780–781
- Shaka Samvat	646–647
- Kali Yuga	3825–3826
Holocene calendar	10724
Iranian calendar	102–103
Islamic calendar	105–106
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3057
Minguo calendar	1188 before ROC 民前1188年
Thai solar calendar	1267

Year 724 (DCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 724 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.

Events

By place

Asia

• Emperor Shōmu succeeds Empress Genshō on the throne of Japan.
• Umayyad caliph Yazid II ibn Abd al-Malik (720–724) is succeeded by Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (724–743).

Mesoamerica

• K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat becomes king of the Maya city of Quiriguá.

Deaths

• Rotrude of Treves, Duchess of the Franks and wife of Charles Martel (b. 690)
• Tonyukuk, Turkic grand vizier and commander-in-chief (approximate date)
• Fogartach mac Néill, High King of Ireland