721
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| Centuries: | 7th century - 8th century - 9th century |
| Decades: | 690s 700s 710s - 720s - 730s 740s 750s |
| Years: | 718 719 720 - 721 - 722 723 724 |
| 721 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 721 DCCXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1474 |
| Armenian calendar | 170 ԹՎ ՃՀ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1123 – -1122 |
| Berber calendar | 1671 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1265 |
| Burmese calendar | 83 |
| Chinese calendar | 3357/3417-11-29 (庚申年十一月廿九日) — to —
3358/3418-12-9(辛酉年十二月初九日) |
| Coptic calendar | 437 – 438 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 713 – 714 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4481 – 4482 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 776 – 777 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 643 – 644 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3822 – 3823 |
| Holocene calendar | 10721 |
| Iranian calendar | 99 – 100 |
| Islamic calendar | 102 – 103 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3054 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1264 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By Place
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- Former Byzantine emperor Anastasius II leads a revolt against emperor Leo III.
[edit] Europe
- Theuderic IV succeeds Chilperic II as king of the Franks.
- Battle of Toulouse: Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani, the governor of Muslim Spain (al-Andalus), is defeated by Duke Odo of Aquitaine, preventing an Arab invasion of Gaul.
- Anbasa ibn Suhaim Al Kalbi is appointed governor of Al-Andalus.
- Prague is founded (according to legend) by the Princess Libuše and her husband Přemysl, founder of the dynasty with the same name.
[edit] China
- Rains and heavy storms around the southern seaport of Yangzhou reportedly destroy over 1,000 ships and boats, in the usual congested canal and river traffic of the Tang Dynasty era.
[edit] Births
- Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan (a.k.a. Geber), Arabian alchemist (approximate date)
- Al-Saffah, first Abbasid caliph (d. 754)
[edit] Deaths
- Anastasius II, Byzantine Emperor
- Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne (698–721) and presumed author of the Lindisfarne Gospels
- Yao Chong, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (born 650)
- Liu Zhiji, Chinese historian (born 661)
