725

This page relates to the year 725 Calendrier Julien.

Events

August 22nd: Autun is devastated by the Sarrasins. The area of the the Loire is with the hands of the Arab .

the Musulman S of Spain take Carcassonne. They occupy all the country until Nimes. The duke of Aquitaine Eudes their bar the passage. It obliges them to engage in the valley of the the Rhone, which they devastate, then they go up the valley of the the Saone until Autun, which they put at bag the August 22nd. They are stopped with Sens before turning over to Spain with their spoils.
Eudes of Aquitaine, feeling threatened, gives his/her daughter in marriage to Othman, the Arab chief of the border.

Charles Martel combat Saxon . He undertakes the first forwarding to subject the Bavaria. He advances until the the Danube.
the archbishop of Utrecht of Anglo-Saxon origin holy Willibrord goes to the Denmark. It is received by king (Ongendus, undoubtedly Angantyr) who does not leave him any hope of conversion. It buys about thirty slaves, to undoubtedly constitute a first core of catechumens, and destroyed with his return the sanctuary of a crowned island which must be Heligoland.
the basileus Leon III receives the visit of the bishops Iconoclastes Constantin de Nacoleia and Thomas de Claudiopolis and starts to speak against the images.

First revolt Copte against a new increase of taxation. The rebellion is crushed by the army of the Caliph, sent especially in Egypt.

With Ellorâ in India, the temple of Kailâsa is cut with same the rock like a statue on order of Krishna Ier, king Rashtrakuta (fine in 755).
Temple of Vijayeshvara with Pattadakal, in India.
In China, the imperial academy of sciences Han Lin is used in the choice of the senior officials.

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