711

This page relates to the year 711 Calendrier Julien.

Events

America

  • Fine of the reign of the king Maya of Palenque Kan Xul

Asia

India

Europe

  • April 23rd: Beginning of the reign of Dagobert III, king of the Frank (fine in 715).
  • Fine of the striking of gold in Occident (except in Italy). The bonds economic with the Byzantine empire distend, the merchants Greek and Syrian disappear, the areas of old Mediterranean economy périclitent. The stop of the wars causes the deceleration of the draft of the slaves, accentuated by the attitude of the monks who encourage stamping. The shortage of labor in the campaigns pushes the great landowners of the north of the Gaulle to be made work free peasants on part of their field, the reserve, in their imposing of the drudgeries.

  • December: Beginning of the reign of Philippikos Burdocks, Byzantine Emperor (fine in 713).
    • Assassination of Justinien II and his/her Tibère son during a revolt carried out by the Philippikos Armenian in December. Its advent (he is monothelist) causes riots with Rome.
  • Period of anarchy in the Byzantine Empire (711 - 717).

Iberian peninsula

  • Beginning of the invasion of the Spain by the Berber army.
    • the Berber chief Tariq ibn Ziyad, governor of Tangier named by Musa, receives via Julien, Christian Berber prince of Ceuta, a call of king Wisigoth Agila II, relieved by Rodéric (Rodrigue).
    • April 30th: Tariq ibn Ziyad, with the head of 7000 men, takes foot on cliffs of the Pillars of Hercules; he occupies them and strengthens the rock of Gibraltar, which he baptizes according to his own name (Djabal-Al-Tariq).
    • July 19th: Battle of Guadalete, the Visigoths of Rodéric are beaten by the Moslems of Tariq ibn Ziyad, which makes the conquest of the Spain in three years. Tariq takes Cadiz, Ecija, Cordoue then Tolède in October.
    • Confusion in the peninsula: the Jewish of Spain, victims of an anti-judaïque legislation, are ready to receive the foreigners liberators. The slaves flee of the fields.
    • If the idea, anchored well in the tradition, of the treason of the Juifs is not attested, it is certain that the Moslems, with each catch of city, rameuté in the campaigns with the round the Jews which are terraient there, to oblige them to assure the guard armed with the new conquest (in particular with Cordoue, Grenade, Seville and Tolède).

Births in 711

Death in 711

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