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Revision as of 05:06, 27 February 2013
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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721 by topic |
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Leaders |
Categories |
Gregorian calendar | 721 DCCXXI |
Ab urbe condita | 1474 |
Armenian calendar | 170 ԹՎ ՃՀ |
Assyrian calendar | 5471 |
Balinese saka calendar | 642–643 |
Bengali calendar | 128 |
Berber calendar | 1671 |
Buddhist calendar | 1265 |
Burmese calendar | 83 |
Byzantine calendar | 6229–6230 |
Chinese calendar | 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3418 or 3211 — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3419 or 3212 |
Coptic calendar | 437–438 |
Discordian calendar | 1887 |
Ethiopian calendar | 713–714 |
Hebrew calendar | 4481–4482 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 777–778 |
- Shaka Samvat | 642–643 |
- Kali Yuga | 3821–3822 |
Holocene calendar | 10721 |
Iranian calendar | 99–100 |
Islamic calendar | 102–103 |
Japanese calendar | Yōrō 5 (養老5年) |
Javanese calendar | 614–615 |
Julian calendar | 721 DCCXXI |
Korean calendar | 3054 |
Minguo calendar | 1191 before ROC 民前1191年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −747 |
Seleucid era | 1032/1033 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1263–1264 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 847 or 466 or −306 — to — 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 848 or 467 or −305 |
Year 721 (DCCXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 721 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
- Former Byzantine emperor Anastasios II leads a revolt against emperor Leo III the Isaurian.
Europe
- February 13 – Theuderic IV succeeds Chilperic II as Merovingian King of the Franks, under the control of the Mayor of the Palace, Charles Martel.
- June 9 – Battle of Toulouse: after besieging Toulouse for three months, Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani, the Wāli (governor) of Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain), is defeated (and dies of his injuries) by Odo the Great, Duke of Aquitaine, preventing the spread of Umayyad control westward from Narbonne into Aquitaine.
- Anbasa ibn Suhaym Al-Kalbi is appointed governor of Al-Andalus.
- Prague is founded (according to legend) by the Princess Libuše and her husband Přemysl, founder of the eponymous dynasty.
China
- Rains and heavy storms around the southern seaport of Yangzhou destroy over 1,000 ships and boats in the usual congested waterway traffic of the Tang Dynasty.
Births
- Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan (a.k.a. Geber), Arabian alchemist (approximate date)
- Al-Saffah, first Abbasid caliph (d. 754)
Deaths
- Anastasius II, Byzantine Emperor
- Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne (698–721) and presumed author of the Lindisfarne Gospels
- Yao Chong, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (born 650)
- Liu Zhiji, Chinese historian (born 661)
- Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani, the Arab governor general of Muslim Spain.
- 715, 718 or 721 – Khan Tervel of Bulgaria (b. c.675)