715

Year 715 (DCCXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 715 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.

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715 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar715
DCCXV
Ab urbe condita1468
Armenian calendar164
ԹՎ ՃԿԴ
Assyrian calendar5465
Balinese saka calendar636–637
Bengali calendar122
Berber calendar1665
Buddhist calendar1259
Burmese calendar77
Byzantine calendar6223–6224
Chinese calendar甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
3411 or 3351
     to 
乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
3412 or 3352
Coptic calendar431–432
Discordian calendar1881
Ethiopian calendar707–708
Hebrew calendar4475–4476
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat771–772
 - Shaka Samvat636–637
 - Kali Yuga3815–3816
Holocene calendar10715
Iranian calendar93–94
Islamic calendar96–97
Japanese calendarWadō 8 / Reiki 1
(霊亀元年)
Javanese calendar608–609
Julian calendar715
DCCXV
Korean calendar3048
Minguo calendar1197 before ROC
民前1197年
Nanakshahi calendar−753
Seleucid era1026/1027 AG
Thai solar calendar1257–1258
Tibetan calendar阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
841 or 460 or −312
     to 
阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
842 or 461 or −311
Pope Gregory II (715–731)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • May Emperor Anastasios II is deposed in an army mutiny, and succeeded by Theodosius III, a tax-collector from the theme of Opsikion (modern Turkey). After a six-month siege, Theodosius and his troops take Constantinople; Anastasios is forced to abdicate the throne, and retires to a monastery in Thessaloniki (Macedonia).

Europe

  • September 26 Battle of Compiègne: Ragenfrid, mayor of the palace of Neustria and Burgundy (appointed by King Dagobert III), defeats Theudoald in the first battle of the Frankish civil war, following the death of Pepin II (of Herstal).
  • Dagobert III dies of an illness and is succeeded by Chilperic II, son of Childeric II, as king of Neustria. Charles Martel is freed from prison at Cologne, and is proclaimed Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia at the capital Metz.

Britain

  • Battle of Woden's Burg: Kings Ine of Wessex and Ceolred of Mercia clash at Woden's Burg (Wiltshire).
  • King Nechtan mac Der-Ilei invites the Northumbrian clergy to establish Christianity amongst the Picts.

Arabian Empire

Dirham of the Umayyad caliph Sulayman (r. 715–717)

Japan

  • Empress Genmei abdicates the throne after an 8-year reign, in which she has built a replica of the Chinese imperial palace at Japan's new capital, Nara. Genmei is succeeded by her daughter Genshō.

Religion

  • April 9 Pope Constantine I dies at Rome after a 7-year reign. He is succeeded by Gregory II as the 89th pope of the Catholic Church.[1]
  • Winning, an Irish monk, lands at the mouth of the River Garnock in Scotland, and establishes a community or cell of monks (termed cella or "Kil" in Gaelic).[2]
  • The newly-appointed Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople organises a council propagating Dyothelitism, and attempts to improve relations with the Armenian Apostolic Church.
  • Approximate date Tewkesbury Abbey is founded on the site of an ancient hermitage in England, by the noble brothers Oddo and Doddo.

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Pope St. Gregory II" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  2. Dobie, p. 255
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