707

This article is about the year 707. For the number, see 707 (number). For other uses, see 707 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	670s 680s 690s – 700s – 710s 720s 730s
Years:	704 705 706 – 707 – 708 709 710

707 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

Year 707 (DCCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 707 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

The Byzantines lose the Balearic Islands to the Moors.
A large Umayyad army under Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik invades Asia Minor and lays siege to Tyana. The city resists, dragging the siege through the winter and into 708.^[1]

October 18 – Death of Pope John VII. Prolonged sede vacante until the ratification of the election of Pope Sisinnius by the Exarch of Ravenna in early 708.^[2]

Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i, chief representative and eponym of the Awzai school of Islamic law (d. 774)

^ Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 341, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2, http://books.google.com/books?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC
^ Venning, Timothy, ed (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 191. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.