724

Year 724 (DCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 724 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century 8th century 9th century
Decades:	700s 710s 720s 730s 740s
Years:	721 722 723 724 725 726 727

724 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	724 DCCXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1477
Armenian calendar	173 ԹՎ ՃՀԳ
Assyrian calendar	5474
Balinese saka calendar	645–646
Bengali calendar	131
Berber calendar	1674
Buddhist calendar	1268
Burmese calendar	86
Byzantine calendar	6232–6233
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3420 or 3360     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3421 or 3361
Coptic calendar	440–441
Discordian calendar	1890
Ethiopian calendar	716–717
Hebrew calendar	4484–4485
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	780–781
- Shaka Samvat	645–646
- Kali Yuga	3824–3825
Holocene calendar	10724
Iranian calendar	102–103
Islamic calendar	105–106
Japanese calendar	Yōrō 8 / Jinki 1 (神亀元年)
Javanese calendar	617–618
Julian calendar	724 DCCXXIV
Korean calendar	3057
Minguo calendar	1188 before ROC 民前1188年
Nanakshahi calendar	−744
Seleucid era	1035/1036 AG
Thai solar calendar	1266–1267
Tibetan calendar	阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 850 or 469 or −303     — to — 阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 851 or 470 or −302

Emperor Shōmu (701–756)

Events

By place

Europe

• Ragenfrid, ex-mayor of the palace of Neustria, revolts against Charles Martel. He is easily defeated, and Ragenfrid gives up his sons as hostages, in return for being allowed to keep his lands in Anjou.[1]
• Cináed mac Írgalaig also known as "the one-eyed" becomes High King of Ireland. [2]

Arabian Empire

• January 26 – Caliph Yazid II dies of tuberculosis after a 4-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, who appoints Khalid al-Qasri as governor of Iraq.
• The Turgesh Khaganate scores a major victory over the Arabs, in the "Day of Thirst" near Khujand (modern Tajikistan).
• A Muslim fleet raids the Byzantine-ruled Balearic Islands, as well as Byzantine Sardinia and Lombard Corsica.[3]

Japan

• March 3 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne, in favor of her 23-year-old nephew Shōmu. He is the son of the late emperor Monmu, and becomes the 45th monarch of Japan.[4]

Mesoamerica

• K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat becomes king (ajaw) of the Maya city-state of Quiriguá (Guatemala), until his death in 785.

By topic

Architecture

• Shōmu orders that houses of the Japanese nobility be roofed with green tiles, as in China, and have white walls with red roof poles (approximate date).

Religion

• Pirmin, Visigothic monk, is appointed abbot of Mittelzell Abbey at Reichenau Island, which he has founded.[5]
• Hugh of Champagne, grandson of Pepin of Herstal, is appointed bishop of Bayeux.

Births

• Dong Jin, Chinese official and general
• Fujiwara no Hamanari, Japanese noble and poet

Deaths

• January 26 – Yazid II, Muslim caliph (b. 687)
• Felix, archbishop of Ravenna
• Fogartach mac Néill, High King of Ireland
• Hababah (slave), concubine singer of Caliph Yazid II.
• Rotrude of Treves, wife of Charles Martel
• Tonyukuk, military leader of the Göktürks (approximate date)

References

1. David Nicolle (2008). Poitiers AD 732, Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (p. 18). ISBN 978-184603-230-1
2. Fragmentary Annals of Ireland, FA 178
3. David Nicolle (2008). Poitiers AD 732, Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (p. 41). ISBN 978-184603-230-1
4. Ponsonby-Fane, Richard (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, p. 57
5. Old, Hughes Oliphant (1998). The reading and preaching of the scriptures in the worship of the Christian church. Wm. Eerdmans, pp. 137–40. ISBN 978-0-8028-4619-8