705

__NOTOC__"Alternate meanings: Area code 705; Project 705; Life 705"

Events

By Place

Asia

* February 20 — In a coup d'état, Chinese Chancellor Zhang Jianzhi executes the Zhang brothers and restores Emperor Zhongzong. This marks the end of the short-lived Zhou Dynasty in China.
* A long period of fighting begins between Trebizond and the Arabs.
* Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik is succeeded by al-Walid I ibn Abd al-Malik.

Byzantine Empire

* Khan Tervel of the Bulgars attacks Constantinople in support of the exiled Justinian II.

By Topic

Religion

* March 1 — Pope John VII succeeds Pope John VI as the 86th pope.
* Work begins on the Grand Mosque of Damascus.

Births

* Amoghavajra, Chinese translator and Buddhist (d. 774)

Deaths

* January 11 — Pope John VI
* Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph (b. 646)
* December 16 — Empress Wu Zetian of the Zhou Dynasty (b. 625)