718
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This article is about the year 718. For other uses, see 718 (number).
| Years: 714 715 716 717 - 718 - 719 720 721 722 |
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| Decades: 680s 690s 700s - 710s - 720s 730s 740s |
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| Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century |
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| 718 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 718 DCCXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1471 |
| Armenian calendar | 167 ԹՎ ՃԿԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1126 – -1125 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1262 |
| Chinese calendar | 3354/3414-11-25 (丁巳年十一月廿五日) — to —
3355/3415-12-5(戊午年十二月初五日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 710 – 711 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4478 – 4479 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 773 – 774 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 640 – 641 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3819 – 3820 |
| Holocene calendar | 10718 |
| Iranian calendar | 96 – 97 |
| Islamic calendar | 99 – 100 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 1378 (皇紀1378年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 10718 |
| Julian calendar | 763 |
| Korean calendar | 3051 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1261 |
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- Pelayo defeats the Arabs at Covadonga and establishes the Kingdom of Asturias in the Iberian peninsula (modern day Portugal and Spain) in a victory that was later considered to be the beginning of the Reconquista.
- Emperor Leo III and Khan Tervel defeat Arab forces besieging Constantinople, stopping a large Arab incursion towards Europe.
- End of Tervel's reign as monarch of Bulgaria.
- Saint Boniface sets out for Frisia a second time.
- World's oldest hotel Houshi Onsen founded in Ishikawa-ken, Japan.
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[edit] Births
- Empress Kōken (also Empress Shōtoku), empress of Japan (d. 770).
