706
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This article is about the year 706. For the number, see 706 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 670s 680s 690s – 700s – 710s 720s 730s |
| Years: | 703 704 705 – 706 – 707 708 709 |
| 706 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 706 DCCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1459 |
| Armenian calendar | 155 ԹՎ ՃԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5456 |
| Bahá'í calendar | −1138 – −1137 |
| Bengali calendar | 113 |
| Berber calendar | 1656 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1250 |
| Burmese calendar | 68 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6214–6215 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3402 or 3342 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3403 or 3343 |
| Coptic calendar | 422–423 |
| Discordian calendar | 1872 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 698–699 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4466–4467 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 762–763 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 628–629 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3807–3808 |
| Holocene calendar | 10706 |
| Igbo calendar | −294 – −293 |
| Iranian calendar | 84–85 |
| Islamic calendar | 87–88 |
| Japanese calendar | Keiun 3 (慶雲３年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 706 DCCVI |
| Korean calendar | 3039 |
| Minguo calendar | 1206 before ROC 民前1206年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1249 |
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Year 706 (DCCVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 706 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[edit]
By place[edit]
Byzantine Empire[edit]
- February 15 – Emperor Justinian II presides over the public humiliation of his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III and their chief associates in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, after which they are executed. Patriarch Kallinikos I is also deposed, blinded and exiled to Rome, and succeeded by Kyros.[1]
Europe[edit]
- Duke Corvulus of Friuli is arrested by king Aripert II of the Lombards and has his eyes gouged out. He is replaced by Pemmo who begins a war against the Slavs of Carinthia (modern Austria).
China[edit]
- July 2 – Emperor Zhong Zong has the remains of his mother and recently deceased ruling empress Wu Zetian, her son Li Xian, her grandson Li Chongrun, and granddaughter Li Xianhui all interred in at the same tomb complex as his father and Wu Zetian's husband Gao Zong outside Chang'an known as the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang, which will then remain unopened until 1960.
By topic[edit]
Religion[edit]
- Berhtwald, archbishop of Canterbury, is obliged by the pope's insistence to call the Synod of Nidd (Northumbria).
- Caliph Al-Walid I commissions the construction of the Great Mosque of Damascus (Syria).
Births[edit]
- Al-Walid II, Muslim caliph (d. 744)
- Eoppa, king of Wessex (d. 781)
- Fujiwara no Nakamaro, Japanese statesman (d. 764)
- Han Gan, Chinese painter (d. 783)
Deaths[edit]
- Gisulf I, duke of Benevento
- Kallinikos I, patriarch of Constantinople (or 705)
- February 15 – Leontios, Byzantine emperor
- February 15 – Tiberios III, Byzantine emperor
- Shenxiu, Chinese Zen Buddhist patriarch
- Zhang Jianzhi, official of the Tang Dynasty (b. 625)
References[edit]
- ^ Venning, Timothy, ed. (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 190. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.
