714

This article is about the year 714. For the number, see 714 (number). For other uses, see 714 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	680s 690s 700s – 710s – 720s 730s 740s
Years:	711 712 713 – 714 – 715 716 717

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

714 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	714 DCCXIV
Ab urbe condita	1467
Armenian calendar	163 ԹՎ ՃԿԳ
Assyrian calendar	5464
Bengali calendar	121
Berber calendar	1664
Buddhist calendar	1258
Burmese calendar	76
Byzantine calendar	6222–6223
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3410 or 3350 — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3411 or 3351
Coptic calendar	430–431
Discordian calendar	1880
Ethiopian calendar	706–707
Hebrew calendar	4474–4475
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	770–771
- Shaka Samvat	636–637
- Kali Yuga	3815–3816
Holocene calendar	10714
Iranian calendar	92–93
Islamic calendar	95–96
Japanese calendar	Wadō 7 (和銅７年)
Julian calendar	714 DCCXIV
Korean calendar	3047
Minguo calendar	1198 before ROC 民前1198年
Seleucid era	1025/1026 AG
Thai solar calendar	1256–1257

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Year 714 (DCCXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 714 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

In Septimania local Visigothic nobles of the anti-Roderick party are offered peace terms similar to those of prince Theudimer (see 713) and accept Muslim overlordship. Other Visigoths revolt and proclaim Ardo as king. Visigothic refugees gather in the Picos de Europa in the mountains of Asturias.
December 16 – Pepin II (of Herstal), mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). His infant grandson Theudoald (age 7) becomes the nominal mayor of the palace while his repudiated wife Plectrude holds actual power and imprisons Pepin's illegitimate son Charles Martel.^[1]
Civil War within the Pepinid clan; a revolt erupts between the Neustrian Franks and Frisians. King Radbod forces bishop Willibrord and his Benedictine monks to flee and advances as far as Cologne (Germany). Frisia (modern-day Netherlands) becomes again independent.^[2]
Duke Eudes proclaims himself the independent prince of Aquitaine (located north-east of the Garonne River), thereby asserting legal as well as practical independence from the Frankish Kingdom.^[3]
Grimoald the Younger, mayor of the palace of Neustria, is assassinated while on pilgrimage to visit the tomb of Saint Lambert at Liège, on orders of his father-in-law king Radbod.

Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Continuing campaigns of Muslim domination of the Iberian Peninsula. Arab forces raid the valley of the Ebro River and capture the fortress city of Zaragoza. Musa ibn Nusayr, is made protector (wali) of Al-Andalus with his capital at Seville (approximate date).
Tariq ibn Ziyad conquers the cities Barcelona and Narbonne, where Visigothic nobles accept Umayyad overlordship in return for autonomy in Septimania (Southern France). Supposedly also Muslim raiding towards Avignon and Lyon (approximate date).
Musa ibn Nusayr and Tariq ibn Ziyad are summoned back to Damascus by caliph Al-Walid I. They are ordered to deliver all the spoils of war. Musa complains and is stripped of his rank. Abd al-Aziz, son of Musa, becomes governor of Al-Andalus (modern Spain).
Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, governor of Mesopotamia, dies at Wasit (Iraq) after a 20-year administration. He is credited for improving agricultural production and introducing the diacritic points to the Arabic script. Al-Hajjaj convinces Al-Walid I to adopt an Arab currency.

Emperor Xuan Zong forbids all commercial vendors and shops in the Chinese capital city of Chang'an to copy and sell Buddhist sutras, so that the emperor can give the clergy of the Buddhist monasteries the sole right to distribute written sutras to the laity.
Summer – Xuan Zong makes his general Xue Ne chancellor de facto and commissions him with an Chinese army (60,000 men) to attack the Khitans (Mongolia). Xue falls into a Khitan trap and the Tang forces are crushed, at an 80-90% casualty rate.
Fall – Xue Ne repels a Tibetan invasion who attack the Lan Prefecture (modern Lanzhou). Xuan Zong creates Li Ying, his second son, crown prince of the Tang Dynasty.

↑ David Nicolle (2008). Poitiers AD 732, Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (p. 17). ISBN 978-184603-230-1
↑ "Geschiedenis van het volk der Friezen". Boudicca.de. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
↑ David Nicolle (2008). Poitiers AD 732, Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (p. 21). ISBN 978-184603-230-1