715 e.v.

The Purification Crusade begins. Beleth offers ethereals sanctuary in her realm, for a price. Some pagan gods choose to retreat into the Far Marches instead.
== Asia ==
Empress Genmei abdicates the throne after an 8-year reign, in which she has built a replica of the Chinese imperial palace at Japan's new capital, Nara. Genmei is succeeded by her daughter Genshō. Fujiwara no Matate, Japanese nobleman, is born (he will die in 766). 
Stephen the Younger, Byzantine theologian, is born. The newly-appointed Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople organises a council propagating Dyothelitism, and attempts to improve relations with the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Muhammad ibn Qasim, Arab general, dies (he was born in 695). Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi, Arab governor, dies. Qutayba ibn Muslim, Arab general, dies (he was born in 669).
=== February 23 ===
Caliph Al-Walid I dies at Damascus after a 10-year reign and is succeeded by his brother Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik. During his rule the Umayyad Caliphate reaches its greatest height, with successful campaigns undertaken in Transoxiana (Central Asia), Sindh (Pakistan), Hispania and against the Byzantine Empire.
Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Arabs led by Tariq ibn Ziyad advance from the area La Rioja (modern-day Spain) and conquer the fortress city of León.
=== May ===
Emperor Anastasios II is deposed in an army mutiny, and succeeded by Theodosius III, a tax-collector from the theme of Opsikion (modern Turkey). After a six-month siege, Theodosius and his troops take Constantinople; Anastasios is forced to abdicate the throne and retires to a monastery in Thessaloniki (Macedonia).
=== July 9 ===
Naga, Japanese prince, dies.
== Europe ==
Battle of Woden's Burg: Kings Ine of Wessex and Ceolred of Mercia clash at Woden's Burg (Wiltshire). Tewkesbury Abbey is founded on the site of an ancient hermitage in England, by the noble brothers Oddo and Doddo. Milburga, Anglo-Saxon abbess, dies.
King Nechtan mac Der-Ilei invites the Northumbrian clergy to establish Christianity amongst the Picts. Winning, an Irish monk, lands at the mouth of the River Garnock in Scotland, and establishes a community or cell of monks (termed cella or "Kil" in Gaelic).
Stephen II, pope of the Catholic Church, is born (he will die in 757)
=== April 9 ===
Pope Constantine I dies at Rome after a 7-year reign. He is succeeded by Gregory II as the 89th pope of the Catholic Church.
=== September 26 ===
Battle of Compiègne: Ragenfrid, mayor of the palace of Neustria and Burgundy (appointed by King Dagobert III), defeats Theudoald in the first battle of the Frankish civil war, following the death of Pepin II (of Herstal).
Dagobert III dies of an illness and is succeeded by Chilperic II, son of Childeric II, as king of Neustria. Charles Martel is freed from prison at Cologne and is proclaimed Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia at the capitol Metz.
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