706
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 670s 680s 690s – 700s – 710s 720s 730s |
| Years: | 703 704 705 – 706 – 707 708 709 |
| 706 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 706 DCCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1459 |
| Armenian calendar | 155 ԹՎ ՃԾԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1138 – -1137 |
| Berber calendar | 1656 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1250 |
| Burmese calendar | 68 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6214 – 6215 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年十二月十二日 (3342/3402-12-12) — to —
丙午年十一月廿二日(3343/3403-11-22) |
| Coptic calendar | 422 – 423 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 698 – 699 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4466 – 4467 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 761 – 762 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 628 – 629 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3807 – 3808 |
| Holocene calendar | 10706 |
| Iranian calendar | 84 – 85 |
| Islamic calendar | 87 – 88 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3039 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1249 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By region
- July 2 – In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang had the remains of his mother and recently deceased ruling empress Wu Zetian, her son Li Xian, her grandson Li Chongrun, and granddaughter Li Xianhui all interred in at the same tomb complex as his father and Wu Zetian's husband Emperor Gaozong (d. 683) outside Chang'an known as the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang.
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[edit] Religion
- Umayyad Caliph al-Walid I begins the Great Mosque of Damascus.
[edit] Births
- Eoppa de Wessex (d. 789)
- Han Gan, painter during the Tang Dynasty (d. 783)
[edit] Deaths
- Shenxiu, Chinese Zen Buddhist patriarch of the Tang Dynasty
- Zhang Jianzhi, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 625)
