705

Events 
February 20 – In a coup d'état, Chinese Chancellor Zhang Jianzhi murdered the Zhang brothers and restored Emperor Zhongzong. This marks the end of the short-lived Zhou Dynasty in China
Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik succeeded by al-Walid I ibn Abd al-Malik.
Beginning of a long period of fighting between Trebizond and the Arabs
Pope John VII succeeds Pope John VI.

 Births 
 Amoghavajra, Chinese translator and Buddhist

 Deaths 
 January 11 – Pope John VI
 November – 武則天