715

Year 715 (DCCXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 715 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.

715 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	715 DCCXV
Ab urbe condita	1468
Armenian calendar	164 ԹՎ ՃԿԴ
Assyrian calendar	5465
Balinese saka calendar	636–637
Bengali calendar	121–122
Berber calendar	1665
Buddhist calendar	1259
Burmese calendar	77
Byzantine calendar	6223–6224
Chinese calendar	甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3412 or 3205     — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3413 or 3206
Coptic calendar	431–432
Discordian calendar	1881
Ethiopian calendar	707–708
Hebrew calendar	4475–4476
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	771–772
- Shaka Samvat	636–637
- Kali Yuga	3815–3816
Holocene calendar	10715
Iranian calendar	93–94
Islamic calendar	96–97
Japanese calendar	Wadō 8 / Reiki 1 (霊亀元年)
Javanese calendar	608–609
Julian calendar	715 DCCXV
Korean calendar	3048
Minguo calendar	1197 before ROC 民前1197年
Nanakshahi calendar	−753
Seleucid era	1026/1027 AG
Thai solar calendar	1257–1258
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Tiger) 841 or 460 or −312     — to — ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Wood-Hare) 842 or 461 or −311

Pope Gregory II (715–731)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• May – Emperor Anastasios II is deposed in an army mutiny, and succeeded by Theodosius III, a tax-collector from the theme of Opsikion (modern Turkey). After a six-month siege, Theodosius and his troops take Constantinople; Anastasios is forced to abdicate the throne, and retires to a monastery in Thessaloniki (Macedonia).

Europe

• September 26 – Battle of Compiègne: Ragenfrid, mayor of the palace of Neustria and Burgundy (appointed by King Dagobert III), defeats Theudoald in the first battle of the Frankish civil war, following the death of Pepin II (of Herstal).
• Dagobert III dies of an illness and is succeeded by Chilperic II, son of Childeric II, as king of Neustria. Charles Martel is freed from prison at Cologne, and is proclaimed Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia at the capital Metz.

Britain

• Battle of Woden's Burg: Kings Ine of Wessex and Ceolred of Mercia clash at Woden's Burg (Wiltshire).
• King Nechtan mac Der-Ilei invites the Northumbrian clergy to establish Christianity amongst the Picts.

Arabian Empire

Dirham of the Umayyad caliph Sulayman (r. 715–717)

• February 23 – Caliph Al-Walid I dies at Damascus after a 10-year reign, and is succeeded by his brother Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik. During his rule the Umayyad Caliphate reaches its greatest height, with successful campaigns undertaken in Transoxiana (Central Asia), Sindh (Pakistan), Hispania and against the Byzantine Empire.
• Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Arabs led by Tariq ibn Ziyad advance from the area La Rioja (modern-day Spain), and conquer the fortress city of León.

Japan

• Empress Genmei abdicates the throne after an 8-year reign, in which she has built a replica of the Chinese imperial palace at Japan's new capital, Nara. Genmei is succeeded by her daughter Genshō.

By topic

Religion

• April 9 – Pope Constantine I dies at Rome after a 7-year reign. He is succeeded by Gregory II as the 89th pope of the Catholic Church.^[1]
• Winning, an Irish monk, lands at the mouth of the River Garnock in Scotland, and establishes a community or cell of monks (termed cella or "Kil" in Gaelic).^[2]
• The newly-appointed Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople organises a council propagating Dyothelitism, and attempts to improve relations with the Armenian Apostolic Church.
• Approximate date – Tewkesbury Abbey is founded on the site of an ancient hermitage in England, by the noble brothers Oddo and Doddo. ^{[dubious – discuss]}

Births

• Fujiwara no Matate, Japanese nobleman (d. 766)
• Stephen II, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 757)
• Stephen the Younger, Byzantine theologian (or 713)

Deaths

• February 23 – Al-Walid I, Muslim caliph (b. 668)
• April 9 – Constantine I, Pope of Rome (b. 664)
• July 9 – Naga, Japanese prince
• Dagobert III, king of the Franks (b. 699)
• Milburga, Anglo-Saxon abbess (approximate date)
• Muhammad ibn Qasim, Arab general (b. 695)
• Surya Devi, Indian princess
• Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi, Arab governor
• Qutayba ibn Muslim, Arab general (b. 669)