709
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| Years: 705 706 707 708 - 709 - 710 711 712 713 |
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| Decades: 670s 680s 690s - 700s - 710s 720s 730s |
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| Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century |
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| 709 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 709 DCCIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1462 |
| Armenian calendar | 158 ԹՎ ՃԾԸ |
| Chinese calendar | 3405 – 3406 戊申 – 己酉 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 701 – 702 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4469 – 4470 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 764 – 765 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 631 – 632 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3810 – 3811 |
| Iranian calendar | 87 – 88 |
| Islamic calendar | 90 – 91 |
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Events
- Saelred becomes king of Essex
- Ceolred becomes king of Mercia after his cousin Cenred abdicates to become a monk in Rome
Environmental change
Europe
- A storm separates the Channel Islands of Jethou and Herm
Births
- Emperor Kōnin, emperor of Japan (d. 782)
- Yan Zhenqing, renowned Chinese calligrapher
Deaths
- January 9 - Saint Adrian of Canterbury
- May 25 - Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne
- April 24 - Wilfrid, English archbishop and saint