History
720
General
Population: 224 Million*
- Entertainment: Period of heroic Chinese dramas
- History: "Nikongi" chronology of Japanese history written
- Religion: Caliph Yezid II
Opposition to use of images in Eastern Church – Iconoclasts
- Science: Abu Masa Dshaffar – famous Arab chemist who supposedly invented sulfuric, nitric acids, aqua regia and silver nitrate
- Deaths: Chilperic II of Neustria and Franks, Caliph Omar
Asia
- India: Final fall of India's Gupta dynasty
- Japan: "Nikongi" chronology of Japanese history written
First Shoguns in Japan appointed
Europe
- General: Moslems settle in Sardinia – army crosses Pyrenees into France, taking Narbonne
- England: Glastonbury Abbey rebuilt by King Ine
- Franco-German States: Death of Chilperic II king of Neustria and Franks
Theodoric IV becomes king of the Franks
- Hungary: End of Middle Avar Kingdom and start of Late Avar Kingdom to 804 in Hungary region