706

Year 706 (DCCVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 706 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
706 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar706
DCCVI
Ab urbe condita1459
Armenian calendar155
ԹՎ ՃԾԵ
Assyrian calendar5456
Balinese saka calendar627–628
Bengali calendar113
Berber calendar1656
Buddhist calendar1250
Burmese calendar68
Byzantine calendar6214–6215
Chinese calendar乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
3402 or 3342
     to 
丙午年 (Fire Horse)
3403 or 3343
Coptic calendar422–423
Discordian calendar1872
Ethiopian calendar698–699
Hebrew calendar4466–4467
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat762–763
 - Shaka Samvat627–628
 - Kali Yuga3806–3807
Holocene calendar10706
Iranian calendar84–85
Islamic calendar87–88
Japanese calendarKeiun 3
(慶雲3年)
Javanese calendar598–599
Julian calendar706
DCCVI
Korean calendar3039
Minguo calendar1206 before ROC
民前1206年
Nanakshahi calendar−762
Seleucid era1017/1018 AG
Thai solar calendar1248–1249
Tibetan calendar阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
832 or 451 or −321
     to 
阳火马年
(male Fire-Horse)
833 or 452 or −320
The Great Mosque of Damascus (Syria)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • February 15 Emperor Justinian II presides over the public humiliation of his predecessors, Leontios and Tiberios III, and their chief associates in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, after which they are executed. Patriarch Kallinikos I is also deposed, blinded and exiled to Rome, and succeeded by Kyros.[1]

Europe

  • Duke Corvulus of Friuli is arrested by King Aripert II of the Lombards, and has his eyes gouged out. He is replaced by Pemmo, who begins a war against the Slavs of Carinthia (modern Austria).

China

  • July 2 Emperor Zhong Zong has the remains of his mother and recently deceased ruling empress Wu Zetian, her son Li Xian, her grandson Li Chongrun, and granddaughter Li Xianhui, all interred in the same tomb complex as his father and Wu Zetian's husband Gao Zong, outside Chang'an, known as the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang, which will then remain unopened until 1960.

Religion

Births

  • Al-Walid II, Muslim caliph (d. 744)
  • Eoppa, king of Wessex (d. 781)
  • Fujiwara no Nakamaro, Japanese statesman (d. 764)
  • Han Gan, Chinese painter (d. 783)
  • Theudoald, nephew of the Frankish ruler Charles Martel (d. 741)

Deaths

References

  1. Venning, Timothy, ed. (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 190. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.
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