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== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Byzantine Empire ====
* [[February 15]] &ndash; Emperor [[Justinian II]] presides over the [[public humiliation]] of his predecessors, [[Leontios]] and [[Tiberios III]], and their chief associates in the [[Hippodrome of Constantinople]], after which they are executed. Patriarch [[Patriarch Callinicus I of Constantinople|Kallinikos I]] is also deposed, [[Political mutilation in Byzantine culture|blinded]] and exiled to [[Rome]], and succeeded by [[Kyros of Constantinople|Kyros]].<ref>{{cite book | editor-last=Venning | editor-first = Timothy | title = A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire | url=https://archive.org/details/chronologybyzant00venn_254 | url-access=limited | year = 2006 | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan | isbn = 1-4039-1774-4 | page = [https://archive.org/details/chronologybyzant00venn_254/page/n216 190]}}</ref>

==== Europe ====
* Duke [[Corvulus of Friuli]] is arrested by King [[Aripert II]] of the [[Lombards]], and has his eyes gouged out. He is replaced by [[Pemmo of Friuli|Pemmo]], who begins a war against the [[Slavs]] of [[Carantania|Carinthia]] (modern [[Austria]]).

==== China ====
* July 2 &ndash; Emperor [[Emperor Zhongzong of Tang|Zhong Zong]] has the remains of his mother and recently deceased ruling empress [[Wu Zetian]], her son [[Li Xian (prince)|Li Xian]], her grandson [[Li Chongrun]], and granddaughter [[Li Xianhui]], all interred in the same [[tomb]] complex as his father and Wu Zetian's husband [[Emperor Gaozong of Tang|Gao Zong]], outside [[Chang'an]], known as the [[Qianling Mausoleum]], located on Mount Liang, which will then remain unopened until [[1960]].

=== By topic ===

==== Religion ====
* [[Berhtwald]], [[archbishop of Canterbury]], is obliged by the [[pope]]'s insistence to call the Synod of [[Nidd]] ([[Northumbria]]). 
* Caliph [[Al-Walid I]] commissions the construction of the [[Umayyad Mosque|Great Mosque of Damascus]] ([[Syria]]). 
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