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

• January 11 - Pope John VI
• Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph
• December 16 - Empress Wu Zetian

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