700

700 (DCC) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 700th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 700th year of the 1st millennium, the 100th and last year of the 7th century, and the 1st year of the 700s decade. As of the start of 700, the Gregorian calendar was 3 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
700 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar700
DCC
Ab urbe condita1453
Armenian calendar149
ԹՎ ՃԽԹ
Assyrian calendar5450
Balinese saka calendar621–622
Bengali calendar107
Berber calendar1650
Buddhist calendar1244
Burmese calendar62
Byzantine calendar6208–6209
Chinese calendar己亥年 (Earth Pig)
3396 or 3336
     to 
庚子年 (Metal Rat)
3397 or 3337
Coptic calendar416–417
Discordian calendar1866
Ethiopian calendar692–693
Hebrew calendar4460–4461
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat756–757
 - Shaka Samvat621–622
 - Kali Yuga3800–3801
Holocene calendar10700
Iranian calendar78–79
Islamic calendar80–81
Japanese calendarN/A
Javanese calendar592–593
Julian calendar700
DCC
Korean calendar3033
Minguo calendar1212 before ROC
民前1212年
Nanakshahi calendar−768
Seleucid era1011/1012 AG
Thai solar calendar1242–1243
Tibetan calendar阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
826 or 445 or −327
     to 
阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
827 or 446 or −326

The denomination 700 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

Byzantine Empire

Europe

  • King Cunipert dies after a 12-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Liutpert. He rules the Lombard Kingdom together with Ansprand, duke of Asti, as regent.
  • Raginpert, duke of Turin, deposes King Liutpert after an eight months' reign. He usurps the Lombard throne and puts his son Aripert in line for the succession.[1]
  • Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the palace, extends the Frankish Kingdom and annexes Thuringia. He turns the war towards the Alemanni (approximate date).

Britain

  • King Geraint of Dumnonia receives a letter from Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne, who insists that the Celtic Church comply with the doctrines of Rome.
  • King Ine of Wessex begins to dispense with Wessex sub-kings and replace them with ealdormen (approximate date).
  • The Eóganachta, an Irish dynasty centred around Cashel, begins to dominate southern Ireland (approximate date).
  • Hamwic emerges as a major Wessex trading town (approximate date).[2]

Arabian Empire

  • Mohammad ibn al-Ash'ath revolts against Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan in the Sistan and Balochistan regions (Iran).
  • The Umayyad prince Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik captures the Byzantine stronghold of Theodosiopolis in Armenia.[1][3]
  • Musa ibn Nusayr defeats the Berber forces in Algeria, ending resistance against the Arabs (approximate date).
  • The African slave trade through the Sahara is so extensive, that the town of Zawila (Tunisia) is established.

Mesoamerica

North America

South America

  • The Wari people invade and occupy the Cuzco Valley (modern Peru) in the southern highlands (approximate date).
  • The Moche culture in the northern part of modern day Peru collapses, largely due to environmental problems and/or political and social unrest (approximate date).

Art

Religion

  • Adomnán, Irish abbot, convinces 51 kings to adopt the Cáin Adomnáin, which defines the relationship between women and priests.
  • Queen Cuthburh of Northumbria enters religious life. The Anglo-Saxon religious community at St. Mary's Nunnery is re-founded.
  • Willibrord, Anglo-Saxon missionary, founds a mission post at Emmerich am Rhein (Germany), in the Utrecht Diocese.
  • The Beverley Grammar School (East Yorkshire) is founded by bishop John of Beverley (approximate date).
  • The Lindisfarne Gospels, an illuminated manuscript (Gospel Book), is produced in Northumbria.[4]
  • The famous Catholic Eucharistic Miracle occurs in Lanciano (Italy).

Births

  • Abu Muslim Khorasani, Muslim general (approximate date)
  • Adrian I, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 795)
  • Dōkyō, Japanese Buddhist monk (d. 772)
  • Gaubald, bishop of Regensburg (approximate date)
  • Gregory of Utrecht, Frankish abbot (approximate date)
  • Ja'far al-Sadiq, Shī‘ah Imām and scholar (or 702)
  • Kim Daeseong, Korean minister (d. 774)
  • Paul I, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 767)
  • Pirmin, Visigothic abbot (approximate date)
  • Emperor Shomu, Emperor in Japan (d. 756)
  • Vergilius, bishop of Salzburg (approximate date)
  • Wasil ibn Ata, Muslim theologian (d. 748)
  • Willibald, bishop of Eichstätt (approximate date)

Deaths

  • Asuka, Japanese princess
  • Cunipert, king of the Lombards
  • Di Renji, official of the Tang Dynasty (b. 630)
  • Disibod, Irish monk and hermit (b. 619)
  • Dōshō, Japanese Buddhist monk (b. 629)
  • Fiannamail ua Dúnchado, king of Dál Riata
  • Godeberta, Frankish abbess (approximate date)
  • Hasan ibn al-Nu'man, Muslim emir (general)
  • Osgyth, Anglo-Saxon abbess and saint
  • Reineldis, Frankish saint (approximate date)
  • Asparuh of Bulgaria, Founder of the country of Bulgaria

References

  1. Venning, Timothy, ed. (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 187. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.
  2. Hodges, Richard (1984). "Frisians and Franks: Argonauts of the Dark Ages". Archaeology. 37 (1): 26–31. ISSN 0003-8113. JSTOR 41728801.
  3. Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 339, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2
  4. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, pp. 30–34. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2
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