709

Year 709 (DCCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 709 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:
709 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar709
DCCIX
Ab urbe condita1462
Armenian calendar158
ԹՎ ՃԾԸ
Assyrian calendar5459
Balinese saka calendar630–631
Bengali calendar116
Berber calendar1659
Buddhist calendar1253
Burmese calendar71
Byzantine calendar6217–6218
Chinese calendar戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
3405 or 3345
     to 
己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
3406 or 3346
Coptic calendar425–426
Discordian calendar1875
Ethiopian calendar701–702
Hebrew calendar4469–4470
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat765–766
 - Shaka Samvat630–631
 - Kali Yuga3809–3810
Holocene calendar10709
Iranian calendar87–88
Islamic calendar90–91
Japanese calendarWadō 2
(和銅2年)
Javanese calendar602–603
Julian calendar709
DCCIX
Korean calendar3042
Minguo calendar1203 before ROC
民前1203年
Nanakshahi calendar−759
Seleucid era1020/1021 AG
Thai solar calendar1251–1252
Tibetan calendar阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
835 or 454 or −318
     to 
阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
836 or 455 or −317

Events

Byzantine Empire

Britain

  • Ceolred becomes king of Mercia, after his cousin Coenred abdicates the throne. Dynastic rivalries lead to the banishment of his second cousin, prince Æthelbald, who flees to the East Anglian controlled Crowland Fens.
  • Kings Swæfred and Sigeheard of Essex share power with Offa. He abdicates the throne in order to become a monk in Rome, along with Coenred. Saelred rules jointly with Swæfberht the sub-kingdom of Middlesex.

Arabian Empire

Architecture, real estate

  • Mont Saint-Michel, built by Aubert, bishop of Avranches, has its beginnings in an oratory on Mont Tombe, on the coast of Normandy (approximate date).

Environmental change

Births

  • November 18 Kōnin, emperor of Japan (d. 782)
  • Du Hongjian, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 769)
  • Liu Changqing, Chinese poet (d. 785)
  • Mazu Daoyi, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 788)
  • Yan Zhenqing, Chinese calligrapher (d. 785)
  • Yaxun B'alam IV, king of Yaxchilan (Mexico) (d. 768)
  • Zhang Xun, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 757)

Deaths

  • May 25 Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne
  • Æthelred, king of Mercia (approximate date)
  • Bertin, Frankish abbot (approximate date)
  • Gotfrid, duke of Alemannia (approximate date)
  • Swæfred, king of Essex (approximate date)
  • Wilfrid, Anglo-Saxon bishop (or 710)

References

  1. Venning, Timothy, ed. (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 191–192. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.
  2. Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 938, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2
  3. Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 341, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2
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