Centuries:	7th century - 8th century - 9th century
Decades:	690s  700s  710s  - 720s -  730s  740s  750s
Years:	718 719 720 - 721 - 722 723 724

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Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

721 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	721 DCCXXI
Ab urbe condita	1474
Armenian calendar	170 ԹՎ ՃՀ
Bahá'í calendar	-1123 – -1122
Berber calendar	1671
Buddhist calendar	1265
Burmese calendar	83
Byzantine calendar	6229 – 6230
Chinese calendar	庚申年十一月廿九日 (3357/3417-11-29) — to — 辛酉年十二月初九日 (3358/3418-12-9)
Coptic calendar	437 – 438
Ethiopian calendar	713 – 714
Hebrew calendar	4481 – 4482
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	776 – 777
- Shaka Samvat	643 – 644
- Kali Yuga	3822 – 3823
Holocene calendar	10721
Iranian calendar	99 – 100
Islamic calendar	102 – 103
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3054
Thai solar calendar	1264
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Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

• Former Byzantine emperor Anastasius II leads a revolt against emperor Leo III.

Europe

• Theuderic IV succeeds Chilperic II as king of the Franks.
• Battle of Toulouse: Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani, the governor of Muslim Spain (al-Andalus), is defeated by Duke Odo of Aquitaine, preventing an Arab invasion of Gaul.
• Anbasa ibn Suhaim Al Kalbi is appointed governor of Al-Andalus.
• Prague is founded (according to legend) by the Princess Libuše and her husband Přemysl, founder of the dynasty with the same name.

China

• Rains and heavy storms around the southern seaport of Yangzhou reportedly destroy over 1,000 ships and boats, in the usual congested canal and river traffic of the Tang Dynasty era.

Births

• Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan (a.k.a. Geber), Arabian alchemist (approximate date)
• Al-Saffah, first Abbasid caliph (d. 754)

Deaths

• Anastasius II, Byzantine Emperor
• Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne (698–721) and presumed author of the Lindisfarne Gospels
• Yao Chong, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (born 650)
• Liu Zhiji, Chinese historian (born 661)