725

Year 725 (DCCXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 725 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:
725 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar725
DCCXXV
Ab urbe condita1478
Armenian calendar174
ԹՎ ՃՀԴ
Assyrian calendar5475
Balinese saka calendar646–647
Bengali calendar132
Berber calendar1675
Buddhist calendar1269
Burmese calendar87
Byzantine calendar6233–6234
Chinese calendar甲子年 (Wood Rat)
3421 or 3361
     to 
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
3422 or 3362
Coptic calendar441–442
Discordian calendar1891
Ethiopian calendar717–718
Hebrew calendar4485–4486
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat781–782
 - Shaka Samvat646–647
 - Kali Yuga3825–3826
Holocene calendar10725
Iranian calendar103–104
Islamic calendar106–107
Japanese calendarJinki 2
(神亀2年)
Javanese calendar618–619
Julian calendar725
DCCXXV
Korean calendar3058
Minguo calendar1187 before ROC
民前1187年
Nanakshahi calendar−743
Seleucid era1036/1037 AG
Thai solar calendar1267–1268
Tibetan calendar阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
851 or 470 or −302
     to 
阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
852 or 471 or −301

Events

Europe

  • Umayyad conquest of Gaul: Muslim forces under Anbasa ibn Suhaym al-Kalbi (governor of Al-Andalus) capture the fortified town of Carcassonne, which has been under siege (see 720), as well as Nîmes in Septimania (the latter without resistance).[1]
  • Summer Anbasa leads a raiding force up the Rhône and Saône Valleys into Burgundy, taking Autun. Muslim raiders reach Sens, Luxeuil and Langres; the cities are devastated. Some Muslims might also have reached the Vosges Mountains.[2]
  • Duke Eudes of Aquitaine seeks an alliance with Munuza, governor of Cerdagne (eastern Pyrenees), currently in rebellion against the central Umayyad government at Córdoba in Andalusia (probably not cemented until 729).[3]
  • Charles Martel invades Bavaria, and kills Duke Grimoald in battle. His son Hugbert submits to Frankish suzerainty, and Charles brings back the Agilolfing princess Swanachild, who becomes his concubine (later his wife).
  • King Liutprand puts Corsica, nominally under Byzantine authority, under Lombard government, defending it from Muslim raids (approximate date).

Britain

  • The exiled prince Ealdbert, possibly a nephew of King Ine of Wessex looking for recognition as his heir, seeks sanctuary in Sussex. Ine attacks the South Saxons and kills Ealdbert.
  • April 23 King Wihtred of Kent dies after a 35-year reign. The kingdom is divided between his three sons: Æthelbert II as overking, Eadbert I in West Kent and Alric.

China

Literature

  • Bede, Northumbrian monk-historian, writes The Reckoning of Time (De temporum ratione), explaining how to calculate medieval Easter.

Religion

Births

  • Paul the Deacon, Lombard monk (approximate date)
  • Stephen the Hymnographer, Syrian monk (d. 807)

Deaths

  • April 23 Wihtred, king of Kent
  • Ealdbert, prince of Wessex
  • Grimoald, duke of Bavaria
  • Gwylog ap Beli, king of Powys
  • Nothhelm, king of Sussex
  • Ruben of Dairinis, Irish scholar

References

  1. Collins, R. (1989), p. 213
  2. David Nicolle (2008). Poitiers AD 732, Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (p. 41). ISBN 978-184603-230-1
  3. David Nicolle (2008). Poitiers AD 732, Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (p. 18). ISBN 978-184603-230-1


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