706

Year 706 (DCCVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 706th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 706th year of the 1st millennium, the 6th year of the 8th century, and the 7th year of the 700s decade. The denomination 706 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.

706 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	706 DCCVI
Ab urbe condita	1459
Armenian calendar	155 ԹՎ ՃԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	5456
Balinese saka calendar	627–628
Bengali calendar	112–113
Berber calendar	1656
Buddhist calendar	1250
Burmese calendar	68
Byzantine calendar	6214–6215
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3403 or 3196     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3404 or 3197
Coptic calendar	422–423
Discordian calendar	1872
Ethiopian calendar	698–699
Hebrew calendar	4466–4467
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	762–763
- Shaka Samvat	627–628
- Kali Yuga	3806–3807
Holocene calendar	10706
Iranian calendar	84–85
Islamic calendar	87–88
Japanese calendar	Keiun 3 (慶雲３年)
Javanese calendar	598–599
Julian calendar	706 DCCVI
Korean calendar	3039
Minguo calendar	1206 before ROC 民前1206年
Nanakshahi calendar	−762
Seleucid era	1017/1018 AG
Thai solar calendar	1248–1249
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) 832 or 451 or −321     — to — མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Horse) 833 or 452 or −320

The Great Mosque of Damascus (Syria)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• February 15 – Emperor Justinian II presides over the public humiliation of his predecessors, Leontios and Tiberios III, and their chief associates in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, after which they are executed. Patriarch Kallinikos I is also deposed, blinded and exiled to Rome, and succeeded by Kyros.^[1]

Europe

• Duke Corvulus of Friuli is arrested by King Aripert II of the Lombards, and has his eyes gouged out. He is replaced by Pemmo, who begins a war against the Slavs of Carinthia (modern Austria).

China

• July 2 – Emperor Zhong Zong has 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 the same tomb complex as his father and Wu Zetian's husband Gao Zong, outside Chang'an, known as the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang, which will then remain unopened until 1960.

By topic

Religion

• Berhtwald, archbishop of Canterbury, is obliged by the pope's insistence to call the Synod of Nidd (Northumbria).
• Caliph Al-Walid I commissions the construction of the Great Mosque of Damascus (Syria).

Births

• Al-Walid II, Muslim caliph (d. 744)
• Eoppa, king of Wessex (d. 781)
• Fujiwara no Nakamaro, Japanese statesman (d. 764)
• Han Gan, Chinese painter (d. 783)
• Theudoald, nephew of the Frankish ruler Charles Martel (d. 741)

Deaths

• February 15 – Leontios, Byzantine emperor
• February 15 – Tiberios III, Byzantine emperor
• Gisulf I, duke of Benevento
• Kallinikos I, patriarch of Constantinople (or 705)
• Shenxiu, Chinese Zen Buddhist patriarch
• Zhang Jianzhi, official of the Tang dynasty (b. 625)