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Calendar overview 707
Map with all linked sites: | 707 | |
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 the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus begins. |
| 707 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 155/156 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 699/700 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1250/51 (southern Buddhism); 1249/50 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 56th (57th) cycle
Year of the fire sheep丁未 ( at the beginning of the year fire horse 丙午) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 69/70 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 85/86 |
| Islamic calendar | 88/89 (turn of the year November 30th / December 1st) |
| Jewish calendar | 4467/68 (September 2/3) |
| Coptic calendar | 423/424 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MCDLX (1460)
Diocletian's era 423/424 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1017/18 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1018/19 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 745 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 763/764 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
- After the death of the Japanese emperor Mommu , Gemmei becomes empress.
religion
- Under Caliph al-Walid I , construction of the Umayyad mosque begins in Damascus . It is completed in 717 .
Born
- around 707: al-Auzāʿī , Islamic legal scholar († 774 )
- around 707/708 : Gregory of Utrecht , missionary, abbot and saint († 775 or 776 )
Died
- June 15 : Mommu , Japanese Emperor (* 683 )
- October 18 : John VII , Pope
- Abbo II , Bishop of Metz
- John Maron I , first patriarch of the Maronites