Events Births Deaths Categories: 696 ... Events End of the reign of Empress Jito of Japan Emperor Mommu ascends to the throne of Japan Approximate date of the Council of Birr, when the northern part of Ireland accepted the Roman calculations for celebrating Easter. ... Events Tiberius III deposes Leontius and becomes Byzantine Emperor. ... Events Umayyad general Hajjaj suppresses a rebellion by Ibn al-Ashath. ... Events September 30 - John VI succeeds Sergius I as Pope. ... // Births April 20 - Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. ... Events Births Deaths Empress Jito of Japan In Other Fields 703 is the area code for telephone numbers in the Northern Virginia region of the United States. ... Events Justinian II re-takes the throne of the Byzantine Empire Cenred succeeds to the throne of Mercia after his uncle Aethelred abdicates to become abbot of Bardney Births Deaths Adamnan, abbot of Iona (b. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... Centuries: 6th century 7th century 8th century Decades: 620s - 630s - 640s - 650s - 660s - 670s - 680s - 690s - 700s - 710s - 720s Years: 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 Events 674-677 - Arab army first besieges Constantinople Categories: 670s ... Centuries: 6th century 7th century 8th century Decades: 630s - 640s - 650s - 660s - 670s - 680s - 690s - 700s - 710s - 720s - 730s Years: 680 681 682 683 684 685 686 687 688 689 690 Events: Battle of Karbala Categories: 680s ... Centuries: 6th century 7th century 8th century Decades: 640s - 650s - 660s - 670s - 680s - 690s - 700s - 710s - 720s - 730s - 740s Years: 690 691 692 693 694 695 696 697 698 699 700 Births: Chinese poet Wang Wei. ... Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century Decades: 650s - 660s - 670s - 680s - 690s - 700s - 710s - 720s - 730s - 740s - 750s Years: 700 701 702 703 704 705 706 707 708 709 Events: Categories: 700s ... Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century Decades: 660s - 670s - 680s - 690s - 700s - 710s - 720s - 730s - 740s - 750s - 760s 710 711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 Events 717 - 2nd Arab siege of Constantinople Categories: 710s ... Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century Decades: 670s - 680s - 690s - 700s - 710s - 720s - 730s - 740s - 750s - 760s - 770s Years: 720 721 722 723 724 725 726 727 728 729 Events: Categories: 720s ... Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century Decades: 680s - 690s - 700s - 710s - 720s - 730s - 740s - 750s - 760s - 770s - 780s Years: 730 731 732 733 734 735 736 737 738 739 Significant Persons Anglo-Saxon poet Caedmon active Events Categories: 730s ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... This Buddhist stela from China, Northern Wei period, was built in the early 6th century. ... // Overview Events The Roman-Persian Wars end. ... (7th century — 8th century — 9th century — other centuries) Events The Iberian peninsula is taken by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost 8 centuries of Muslim presence there. ...

Events

• Saint Adamnan convinces 51 kings to adopt Cáin Adomnáin defining the relationship between women and priests.

• Musa bin Nusair has defeated the Berber army in Algeria ending resistance against the Arabs there.
• Mohammad ibn Alashath revolution against Abdul Malik ibn Marwan in the Sistan and Balochistan regions.
• Beverley Grammar School founded by St. John of Beverley

Saint Adamnan or Adomnan (625-704) was abbot of the monastery at Iona from 679 to 704. ... The Cáin Adomnáin (Law of Adomnán), also known as the Lex Innocentium (Law of Innocents) was promulgated amongst a gathering of Irish, Dal Ríatan and Pictish notables at a location known as Birr in 697. ... Musa bin Nusair (640—716) was a Yemeni Muslim governor and general under the Umayyads. ... The Berbers (also called Imazighen, free men, singular Amazigh) are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afroasiatic family. ... For other uses, see Arab (disambiguation). ... Categories: Iran geography stubs | Provinces of Iran ... Major ethnic groups in Pakistan and surrounding areas, in 1980. ... Beverley Grammar School, in Beverley, East Yorkshire was founded in 700 AD and is the oldest state school in England. ...

Environmental change

Africa

• The copper deposits of south Katanga are mined and traded by the Bantu.

General Name, Symbol, Number copper, Cu, 29 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 4, d Appearance metallic brown Atomic mass 63. ... Capital Lubumbashi Created June 1960 Dissolved January 1963 Demonym Katangan Currency Katanga franc Katanga is the southern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, regional capital Lubumbashi (formerly Elizabethville). ... Map showing the approximate distribution of Bantu (dull yellow) vs. ...

Births

• Wasil ibn Ata (d. 748)

Wasil ibn Ata (700 - 748) was a Muslim theologian, and by some accounts is considered the founder of the Mutazilite school of Islamic thought. ... Events January - An earthquake strikes the Middle East from northern Egypt to northwestern Mesopotamia, destroying many remnants of Byzantine culture. ...

Deaths

• Di Renji, Chancellor of China (b. 630)

• Cunincpert, king of the Lombards

Di Renjie (狄仁傑) (630 - 700) was a Chinese official famous for opposing corruption who twice served as the Chancellor of Tang China. ... Chancellor of China 丞相 (Cheng Xiang) or 宰相 (Zai Xiang), was the highest rank in the imperial government in former China after the emperor (685 BC-6 BC, 189-1380). ... Events Muhammad captures Mecca (January). ... Cunipert or Cunincpert was king of the Lombards from 688 to 700. ...

Trivia

This time period was used as the second time world (Dark Ages) of The Lost Vikings II. The Lost Vikings is a side-scrolling puzzle/platform video game which was developed by Blizzard Entertainment (then known as Silicon & Synapse) and released in 1992 by publisher Interplay Entertainment. ...