713

Year 713 (DCCXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 713 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:
713 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar713
DCCXIII
Ab urbe condita1466
Armenian calendar162
ԹՎ ՃԿԲ
Assyrian calendar5463
Balinese saka calendar634–635
Bengali calendar120
Berber calendar1663
Buddhist calendar1257
Burmese calendar75
Byzantine calendar6221–6222
Chinese calendar壬子年 (Water Rat)
3409 or 3349
     to 
癸丑年 (Water Ox)
3410 or 3350
Coptic calendar429–430
Discordian calendar1879
Ethiopian calendar705–706
Hebrew calendar4473–4474
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat769–770
 - Shaka Samvat634–635
 - Kali Yuga3813–3814
Holocene calendar10713
Iranian calendar91–92
Islamic calendar94–95
Japanese calendarWadō 6
(和銅6年)
Javanese calendar606–607
Julian calendar713
DCCXIII
Korean calendar3046
Minguo calendar1199 before ROC
民前1199年
Nanakshahi calendar−755
Seleucid era1024/1025 AG
Thai solar calendar1255–1256
Tibetan calendar阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
839 or 458 or −314
     to 
阴水牛年
(female Water-Ox)
840 or 459 or −313
Emperor Anastasios II (713–715)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • June 3 Emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed, and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace, after a reign of 1 year and 6 months. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, a bureaucrat and imperial secretary, who restores internal order and begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army. He executes the officers who have been directly involved in the conspiracy against Philippicus.
  • Arab–Byzantine wars: The Umayyad Arabs under al-Abbas ibn al-Walid, son of caliph al-Walid I, sack Antioch in Pisidia (modern Turkey), which never recovers.

Britain

  • King Ealdwulf of East Anglia dies, and is succeeded by his son Ælfwald. Queen Cuthburh of Northumbria travels south to found a monastery at Wimborne (Dorset).

Arabian Empire

China

  • Emperor Xuan Zong liquidates the highly lucrative "Inexhaustible Treasury", which is run by a prominent Buddhist monastery in Chang'an. This monastery collects vast amounts of money, silk, and treasures through multitudes of rich people's repentances, left on the premises anonymously. Although the monastery is generous in donations, Xuan Zong issues a decree abolishing their treasury, on the grounds that their banking practices were fraudulent, collects their riches, and distributes the wealth to various other Buddhist monasteries, Daoist abbeys, and to repair statues, halls, and bridges in the city.
  • In Chang'an, for the annual Lantern Festival of this year, recently abdicated emperor Rui Zong erects an enormous lantern wheel at a city gate, with a recorded height of 200 ft. The frame is draped in brocades and silk gauze, adorned with gold and jade jewelry, and when its total of some 50,000 oil cups is lit, the radiance of it can be seen for miles.
  • Xuan Zong allots the money of 20 million copper coins, and assigns about 1,000 craftsmen to construct a hall at a Buddhist monastery with tons of painted portraits of himself, and of deities, ghosts, etc.
  • Xuan Zong wins a power struggle with his sister, Princess Taiping. He executes a large number of her allies and forces her to commit suicide.

Literature

  • During the Tang Dynasty, publication of Kaiyuan Za Bao ("Bulletin of the Court"). First newspaper, hand printed on silk (approximate date).

Religion

  • Construction begins on the Leshan Giant Buddha near Leshan, Sichuan Province (China). Upon its completion in 803, it will become the largest stone carved Buddha in the world.

Births

  • Carloman, mayor of the palace (approximate date)
  • Stephen the Younger, Byzantine theologian (or 715)
  • Zhang Xuan, Chinese painter (d. 755)

Deaths

References

  1. David Nicolle (2008). Poitiers AD 732, Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (p. 17). ISBN 978-184603-230-1
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