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Calendar overview 704
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Cenred succeeds Æthelred as King of Mercia . | |
704 in other calendars | |
Armenian calendar | 152/153 (turn of the year July) |
Ethiopian calendar | 696/697 |
Buddhist calendar | 1247/48 (southern Buddhism); 1246/47 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 56th (57th) cycle
Year of the wood dragon甲辰 ( at the beginning of the year water rabbit 癸卯) |
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 66/67 (turn of the year April) |
Iranian calendar | 82/83 |
Islamic calendar | 84/85 (turn of the year 13/14 January) |
Jewish calendar | 4464/65 (September 3-4) |
Coptic calendar | 420/421 |
Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MCDLVII (1457)
Era of Diocletian 420/421 |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 1014/15 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1015/16 (turn of the year October) |
Spanish era | 742 |
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 760/761 (turn of the year April) |
Events
- May 1 : A deed of donation from Duke Hedan II of Thuringia to the Anglo-Saxon Bishop Willibrord of Utrecht, issued in Würzburg , mentions place names in today's Thuringia for the first time : Arnstadt , Mühlberg and Großmonra .
- Æthelred , King of Mercia , abdicates. He goes to a monastery as a monk. He will be succeeded by Cenred .
- The few months old Khri-lde gTsug-brtsan becomes the new Tibetan king.
- Irmina von Oeren gives Willibrord the Villa Steinheim .
- In a document of the monastery Echternach is Köwerich mentioned in Trier for the first time.
- The French place Le Pecq is the first time in a document of the Frankish King Childebert III. mentioned.
Born
Died
- February 10 : Austreberta , saint of the Catholic Church
- September 23 : Adomnan , abbot of Iona monastery, biographer of St. Columban (* around 628 )
- Chalid ibn Yazid , Arab alchemist, son of the caliph of Damascus