709
This article is about the year 709. For the number, see 709 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 670s 680s 690s – 700s – 710s 720s 730s |
| Years: | 706 707 708 – 709 – 710 711 712 |
| 709 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 709 DCCIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1462 |
| Armenian calendar | 158 ԹՎ ՃԾԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5459 |
| Bengali calendar | 116 |
| Berber calendar | 1659 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1253 |
| Burmese calendar | 71 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6217–6218 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3405 or 3345 — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3406 or 3346 |
| Coptic calendar | 425–426 |
| Discordian calendar | 1875 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 701–702 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4469–4470 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 765–766 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 631–632 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3810–3811 |
| Holocene calendar | 10709 |
| Iranian calendar | 87–88 |
| Islamic calendar | 90–91 |
| Japanese calendar | Wadō 2 (和銅２年) |
| Julian calendar | 709 DCCIX |
| Korean calendar | 3042 |
| Minguo calendar | 1203 before ROC 民前1203年 |
| Seleucid era | 1020/1021 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1251–1252 |
Year 709 (DCCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 709 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
By place
Byzantine Empire
- June – Emperor Justinian II sends a punitive expedition to Italy under the patrikios Theodore, to intervene in the dispute between pope Constantine I and the archbishop Felix of Ravenna who claimed to be independent of the pope's authority. Theodore captures Ravenna, and arrests Felix and other Italian leaders. He deports them to Constantinople, from where they were exiled to Cherson (Crimea).[1][2]
Britain
- Ceolred becomes king of Mercia after his cousin Coenred abdicates the throne. Dynastic rivalries lead to the banishment of his second cousin, prince Æthelbald, who flees to the East Anglian controlled Crowland Fens.
- Kings Swæfred and Sigeheard of Essex share power with Offa. He abdicates the throne in order to become a monk in Rome along with Coenred. Saelred rules jointly with Swæfberht the sub-kingdom of Middlesex.
Arabian Empire
- Arab–Byzantine War: An Umayyad army under Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik raids Isauria (modern Turkey). He is appointed military governor of Armenia and Azerbaijan, succeeding his uncle Muhammad ibn Marwan.[3]
- After two years of failed efforts, Qutayba ibn Muslim captures Bukhara (Uzbekistan) for the Umayyad Caliphate. The Hephthalite princes of Tokharistan rebel against the Arabs, but are swiftly subdued by Qutayba.
By topic
Architecture, real estate
- Mont Saint-Michel has its beginnings in an oratory on Mont Tombe on the coast of Normandy built by Aubert, bishop of Avranches (approximate date).
Environmental change
- A storm separates the Channel Islands of Jethou and Herm.
Births
- Du Hongjian, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 769)
- November 18 – Kōnin, emperor of Japan (d. 782)
- Liu Changqing, Chinese poet (d. 785)
- Mazu Daoyi, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 788)
- Yan Zhenqing, Chinese calligrapher (d. 785)
- Yaxun B'alam IV, king of Yaxchilan (Mexico) (d. 768)
- Zhang Xun, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 757)
Deaths
- Æthelred, king of Mercia (approximate date)
- May 25 – Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne
- Bertin, Frankish abbot (approximate date)
- Gotfrid, duke of Alemannia (approximate date)
- April 24 – Wilfrid, Anglo-Saxon bishop (or 710)
- Swæfred, king of Essex (approximate date)
References
- ↑ Venning, Timothy, ed. (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 191–192. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.
- ↑ Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 938, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2
- ↑ Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 341, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2
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