723

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	690s 700s 710s – 720s – 730s 740s 750s
Years:	720 721 722 – 723 – 724 725 726

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

723 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	723 DCCXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1476
Armenian calendar	172 ԹՎ ՃՀԲ
Assyrian calendar	5473
Bengali calendar	130
Berber calendar	1673
Buddhist calendar	1267
Burmese calendar	85
Byzantine calendar	6231–6232
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3419 or 3359 — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3420 or 3360
Coptic calendar	439–440
Discordian calendar	1889
Ethiopian calendar	715–716
Hebrew calendar	4483–4484
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	779–780
- Shaka Samvat	645–646
- Kali Yuga	3824–3825
Holocene calendar	10723
Iranian calendar	101–102
Islamic calendar	104–105
Japanese calendar	Yōrō 7 (養老７年)
Julian calendar	723 DCCXXIII
Korean calendar	3056
Minguo calendar	1189 before ROC 民前1189年
Seleucid era	1034/1035 AG
Thai solar calendar	1265–1266

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Year 723 (DCCXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 723 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

Gunakamadeva, Lichhavi ruler (rajah), founds the city of Kathmandu (modern Nepal). During his reign, he transforms the agrarian society to an industrial city trading between India and Tibet.^[1]

Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary, fells Thor's Oak (a sacred tree) near Fritzlar in Hesse, marking the decisive event in the Christianization of the northern Germanic tribes (approximate date).
Boniface makes Büraburg, a fortified Frankish settlement, his temporary religious base.