718
This page relates to the year 718 Calendrier Julien.
Events
Europe
- Peeling ( Pelago ), elected by the aristocracy wisigothe, founds the Christian kingdom of the Asturies. It reigns until in 737.
- the chief of the resistant last Visigoths against the Arabs, Peeling ( Pelago ), gains over them the victory of Covadonga.
- the Moslems take Narbonne.
- Charles Martel, returned in Austrasie makes proclaim king the mérovingien Clotaire IV. It deposits the bishop of Rheims, Rigobert, which had not supported it and give its évêché to Milon, bishop of Trier, with the contempt of the canon law.
- Charles Martel organizes a punitive forwarding against the Saxons of which it devastates the territory until the Weser.
- August 15th: The head office of Constantinople by the Arab fails.
- a first mosque is set up with Constantinople.
Asia
- the kings of Bukhara, Samarkand and Balkh ask of the assistance to the Chinese (718 - 731) in front of the projection of the Arab for. The emperor Xuanzong the fact of helping by the subjected Turkish tribes but hesitates to send so far a Chinese task force.
- Code of Yorô to the Japan.
Births in 718
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Constantin V, Byzantine Emperor.
- Shōtoku (称徳天皇), empress of the Japan.
Death in 718
Map-bms: 718
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