705

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	670s  680s  690s  – 700s –  710s  720s  730s
Years:	702 703 704 – 705 – 706 707 708

Events

• February 20 – In a coup d'état, Chinese Chancellor Zhang Jianzhi murdered the Zhang brothers and restored Emperor Zhongzong. This marks the end of the short-lived Zhou Dynasty in China
• Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik succeeded by al-Walid I ibn Abd al-Malik.
• Beginning of a long period of fighting between Trebizond and the Arabs
• Pope John VII succeeds Pope John VI.

Births

• Amoghavajra, Chinese translator and Buddhist

Deaths

• January 11 – Pope John VI

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