705
Encyclopedia : 7 : 70 : 705 : 705
| Years: 701 702 703 704 - 705 - 706 707 708 709 | |
| Decades: 670s 680s 690s - 700s - 710s 720s 730s | |
| Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century | |
Alternate meanings: Area code 705; Project 705
Events
- February 20 - In a coup d'état, Chinese Chancellor Zhang Jianzhi murdered the Zhang brothers and restored Emperor Zhongzong. This marks the end of the short-lived Zhou Dynasty in China
- Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik succeeded by al-Walid I ibn Abd al-Malik.
- Beginning of a long period of fighting between Trebizond and the Arabs
- Pope John VII succeeds Pope John VI.
- Khan Tervel of the Bulgars attacks Constantinople in support of the exiled Justinian II.
- Work starts on the Grand Mosque of Damascus.
Births
- Amoghavajra, Chinese translator and Buddhist (d. 774)
Deaths
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