725
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 690s 700s 710s – 720s – 730s 740s 750s |
| Years: | 722 723 724 – 725 – 726 727 728 |
| 725 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 725 DCCXXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1478 |
| Armenian calendar | 174 ԹՎ ՃՀԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5475 |
| Bengali calendar | 132 |
| Berber calendar | 1675 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1269 |
| Burmese calendar | 87 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6233–6234 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3421 or 3361 — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 3422 or 3362 |
| Coptic calendar | 441–442 |
| Discordian calendar | 1891 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 717–718 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4485–4486 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 781–782 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 647–648 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3826–3827 |
| Holocene calendar | 10725 |
| Iranian calendar | 103–104 |
| Islamic calendar | 106–107 |
| Japanese calendar | Jinki 2 (神亀２年) |
| Julian calendar | 725 DCCXXV |
| Korean calendar | 3058 |
| Minguo calendar | 1187 before ROC 民前1187年 |
| Seleucid era | 1036/1037 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1267–1268 |
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Year 725 (DCCXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 725 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
By place
Europe
- Umayyad conquest of Gaul: Muslim forces under Anbasa ibn Suhaym al-Kalbi, governor of Al-Andalus, capture the fortified town of Carcassonne which has been under siege (see 720), as well Nîmes in Septimania, the latter without resistance.[1]
- Summer – Anbasa leads a raiding force up the Rhône and Saône valleys into Burgundy, taking Autun. Muslim raiders reach Sens, Luxeuil and Langres, the cities are devastated. Some Muslims might also have reached the Vosges Mountains.[2]
- Duke Eudes of Aquitaine seeks an alliance with Munuza, governor of Cerdagne (eastern Pyrenees), currently in rebellion against the central Umayyad government at Córdoba in Andalusia (probably not cemented until 729).[3]
- Charles Martel invades Bavaria and kills duke Grimoald in battle. His son Hugbert submits to Frankish suzerainty and Charles brings back the Agilolfing princess Swanachild, who becomes his concubine (later his wife).
- King Liutprand puts Corsica, nominally under Byzantine authority, under Lombard government, defending it from Muslim raids (approximate date).
Britain
- The exiled prince Ealdbert, possibly a nephew of king Ine of Wessex looking for recognition as his heir, seeks sanctuary in Sussex. Ine attacks the South Saxons and kills Ealdbert.
- April 23 – King Wihtred of Kent dies after a 35-year reign. The kingdom is divided between his three sons: Æthelbert II as overking, Eadbert I in West Kent and Alric.
China
- Yi Xing, Chinese Buddhist monk and astronomer, applies a clockwork escapement mechanism to provide rotating motion to his astronomical armillary sphere.
By topic
Literature
- Bede, Northumbrian monk-historian, writes The Reckoning of Time (De temporum ratione) explaining how to calculate medieval Easter.
Religion
- In Egypt, resentment of the Copts against Umayyad taxation (called jizya) leads to a revolt (approximate date).
Births
- Paul the Deacon, Lombard monk (approximate date)
- Stephen the Hymnographer, Syrian monk (d. 807)
Deaths
- Ealdbert, prince of Wessex
- Grimoald, duke of Bavaria
- Gwylog ap Beli, king of Powys
- Nothhelm, king of Sussex
- Ruben of Dairinis, Irish scholar
- April 23 – Wihtred, king of Kent