History
 

720

World

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



 
 
 
 
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