721

This page relates to the year 721 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Europe

February 13rd: Beginning of the reign of Thierry IV, king of the Frank (fine in 737).
June 9th: The duke Eudes of Aquitaine beats the Moslems of Al-Samh ibn Malik close to Toulouse. He cannot take again Narbonne. The defeat of the Arab armies is so large that they will spend four years to be reconstituted. This victory announces that of Charles Martel with the battles of Poitiers in 732.

Abd el Rahman, governor of Cordoue.
In England, publication of the treaty of Bède Worthy the Of the division of time ( Of rations temporum ). One will start to count time starting from the birth of Christ.
Victoire of the Breton of Cornwall on the Saxon with Camel.
Holy Boniface, évangélise the area of the Germanic Hesse in .
Leon III issues the obligatory conversion of the Juifs in the Byzantine empire.

Asia

the Eastern Turk Bilgäqaghan makes peace with the China.

Edict of Yazid II, caliph omeyyade. Proscription of the images for the Christians and the Moslems (cancelled with its death in 723).

Births in 721

Death in 721

the governor Sarrazin Al-Samah with the battles of Toulouse
Chilpéric II, king de Neustrie from 715 to 719, then king of the Francs from 719 to 721

Map-bms: 721

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