725

This article is about the year 725. For the number (and other uses), see 725 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	690s  700s  710s  – 720s –  730s  740s  750s
Years:	722 723 724 – 725 – 726 727 728

725 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

725 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	725 DCCXXV
Ab urbe condita	1478
Armenian calendar	174 ԹՎ ՃՀԴ
Assyrian calendar	5475
Bahá'í calendar	-1119–-1118
Bengali calendar	132
Berber calendar	1675
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1269
Burmese calendar	87
Byzantine calendar	6233–6234
Chinese calendar	甲子年十二月十二日 (3361/3421-12-12) — to — 乙丑年十一月廿二日 (3362/3422-11-22)
Coptic calendar	441–442
Ethiopian calendar	717–718
Hebrew calendar	4485–4486
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	781–782
- Shaka Samvat	647–648
- Kali Yuga	3826–3827
Holocene calendar	10725
Iranian calendar	103–104
Islamic calendar	106–107
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3058
Minguo calendar	1187 before ROC 民前1187年
Thai solar calendar	1268

Year 725 (DCCXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 725 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

Europe

• Bede writes On the reckoning of time (De temporum ratione) explaining how to calculate medieval Easter.

Africa

• In Egypt, resentment of the Copts against taxation leads to a revolt.

Asia

• In China, the Tang Dynasty Buddhist monk, astronomer, and mechanical engineer Yi Xing applies a clockwork escapement mechanism to provide rotating motion to his astronomical armillary sphere.

Deaths

• April 23 – Wihtred, king of Kent
• Tonyukuk, chancellor of Kutluk Khan, Kapagan Khan and Bilge Khan in Turkish Empire