723

Year 723 (DCCXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 723 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.

723 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	723 DCCXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1476
Armenian calendar	172 ԹՎ ՃՀԲ
Assyrian calendar	5473
Balinese saka calendar	644–645
Bengali calendar	129–130
Berber calendar	1673
Buddhist calendar	1267
Burmese calendar	85
Byzantine calendar	6231–6232
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3420 or 3213     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3421 or 3214
Coptic calendar	439–440
Discordian calendar	1889
Ethiopian calendar	715–716
Hebrew calendar	4483–4484
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	779–780
- Shaka Samvat	644–645
- Kali Yuga	3823–3824
Holocene calendar	10723
Iranian calendar	101–102
Islamic calendar	104–105
Japanese calendar	Yōrō 7 (養老７年)
Javanese calendar	616–617
Julian calendar	723 DCCXXIII
Korean calendar	3056
Minguo calendar	1189 before ROC 民前1189年
Nanakshahi calendar	−745
Seleucid era	1034/1035 AG
Thai solar calendar	1265–1266
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Water-Dog) 849 or 468 or −304     — to — ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Water-Boar) 850 or 469 or −303

Boniface fells Thor's Oak in Hesse (1737)

Events

By place

Asia

• Gunakamadeva, Lichhavi ruler (rajah), founds the city of Kathmandu (modern Nepal). During his reign, he transforms the agrarian society to an industrial city trading between India and Tibet.^[1]

By topic

Religion

• Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary, fells Thor's Oak (a sacred tree) near Fritzlar in Hesse, marking the decisive event in the Christianization of the northern Germanic tribes (approximate date).
• Boniface makes Büraburg, a fortified Frankish settlement, his temporary religious base.

Births

• Arbeo, bishop of Freising (approximate date)
• Isonokami no Yakatsugu, Japanese nobleman (d. 781)

Deaths

• October 3 – Elias I of Antioch, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.^[2]
• Adalbert, duke of Alsace
• Fachtna mac Folachtan, Irish abbot
• Ō no Yasumaro, Japanese nobleman