AD 707
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| AD 707 by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 707 DCCVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1460 |
| Armenian calendar | 156 ԹՎ ՃԾԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5457 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 628–629 |
| Bengali calendar | 114 |
| Berber calendar | 1657 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1251 |
| Burmese calendar | 69 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6215–6216 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3404 or 3197 — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3405 or 3198 |
| Coptic calendar | 423–424 |
| Discordian calendar | 1873 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 699–700 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4467–4468 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 763–764 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 628–629 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3807–3808 |
| Holocene calendar | 10707 |
| Iranian calendar | 85–86 |
| Islamic calendar | 88–89 |
| Japanese calendar | Keiun 4 (慶雲４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 599–600 |
| Julian calendar | 707 DCCVII |
| Korean calendar | 3040 |
| Minguo calendar | 1205 before ROC 民前1205年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −761 |
| Seleucid era | 1018/1019 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1249–1250 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 833 or 452 or −320 — to — 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 834 or 453 or −319 |
Year 707 (DCCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 707 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
- Empress Gemmei succeeds to the Japanese throne.
- The first bimaristan (Islamic hospital) is founded in Damascus.
Byzantine Empire
- The Byzantines lose the Balearic Islands to the Moors.
- A large Umayyad army under Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik invades Asia Minor and lays siege to Tyana. The city resists, dragging the siege through the winter and into 708.[1]
By topic
Religion
- October 18 – Death of Pope John VII. Prolonged sede vacante until the ratification of the election of Pope Sisinnius by the Exarch of Ravenna in early 708.[2]
Births
- Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i, chief representative and eponym of the Awzai school of Islamic law (d. 774)
Aircraft
Deaths
- John Maron, first Maronite Patriarch
- Emperor Mommu of Japan (b. 683)
- October 18 – Pope John VII
- Li Duozuo, ethnic Mohe military officer in service of the Chinese Tang Dynasty
References
- ^ Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 341, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2
- ^ Venning, Timothy, ed. (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 191. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.