717

This page relates to the year 717 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Europe

March 21st: Battle of Vinchy. Charles Martel overcomes the Neustrie NS with Vinccy close to Cambrai. It devastates the surroundings of Paris and seizes the treasure of Pépin II of Herstal held by Plectrude.

to increase the number of their vassal without decreasing their personal fortune, Charles Martel and its son Pépin the Brief name abbots and laic bishops to enjoy the incomes of the ecclesiastical grounds or grant directly or indirectly to their faithful, in benefits, the pleasure of grounds of Church. The troops thus remunerated largely exceed the manpower joined together by their adversaries.

March 25th: The Byzantine Empereur Théodose III is obliged to abdicate. Beginning of the reign of Leon III Isaurien, Byzantine Emperor (fine in 740).
August 15th: A Moslem army of 80 000 men and a fleet of 1800 ships, directed by Maslama, besieges Constantinople. It will be overcome in 718 by Leon III thanks to the Greek fires and with the alliance concluded with the Bulgares. It is the last attack tried by the Arab against the city.

Worship of the images: during the seat of Constantinople, an image of the virgin and relics of the Cross are walked on the walls of the city to put the Arabs in escape.

Law of the Alamans (717-719).
the Duchy S Lombards of Bénévent and Spolète tackle the Byzantine possessions in Italy.
a Land reform in Spain puts an end to the great property.

The close East

Beginning of the reign of Umar ibn Abd Al-Aziz Caliph of Damas (fine in 720).
the caliph Umar II encourages conversions. Its envoys in province try to learn with the local populations how to behave as Moslems. Restrictive measures are taken with regard to the dhimmî (not-Moslems), a tax reform is started in favor of the mawâlî (converted).

December 24th: An earthquake destroys the churches of Edesse in Syria.

Asia

Political of conversion of the Hindus in the Sind. Some Hindu chiefs, like Jaisinha, the son of Rajah Dâhir, convert with Islam.
Beginning of the reign of Penny-lou, Kaghan of the Türgech (fine in 748). It invades the Tarim.
In China, the academy Han-Flax becomes a scientific institute.
With the Japan, the government sends the first Japanese “students” towards the China of the Tang.

Births in 717

Death in 717

Map-bms: 717

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