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Year 701 (DCCI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 701 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[link]

By place[link]

Europe[link]

• Wittiza succeeds his grandfather Ergica as king of the Visigoths.
• Liutpert succeeds his father Perctarit as king of the Lombards.
• Raginpert overthrows Liutpert and becomes king of the Lombards. He dies soon after, and his son Aripert succeeds him.

Asia[link]

• The Code of Taihō is issued in Japan.
• January – Iraq: The rebel Umayyad general Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath takes Basra, but is subsequently defeated by Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf and his rebellion fails.^[1]
• Mesopotamia: Muhammad ibn Marwan invades the Byzantine Armenian provinces east of the Euphrates; the local commander Baanes surrenders before the large Arab army and the population accepts a Muslim governor.^[1][2]

By topic[link]

Religion[link]

• October 30 – Pope John VI succeeds Pope Sergius I (died on 8/9 September) as the 85th Pope.^[3]

Births[link]

• Emperor Shōmu, emperor of Japan (d. 756)
• Li Bai (also Li Po), Chinese poet (d. 762)
• Wang Wei, Chinese poet, musician, painter, and chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 761)

Deaths[link]

• September 8 – Pope Sergius I
• Raginpert, king of the Lombards
• Yeon Namsan, Goguryeo-Korean military leader who later served as an official in the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 639)

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