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Years: 700Alternate uses, see Number 700. Events Saint Adamnan convinces 51 kings to adopt Cain Adomnain defining the relationship between women and priests. Births Deaths Cunincpert, king of the Lombards Saint Osyth 700. 701Events September 30 John VI succeeds Sergius I as Pope. Witiza succeeds his grandfather Egica as king of the Visigoths. Liutpert succeeds his father Perctarit as king of the Lombards Raginpert overthrows Liutpert and becomes king of the Lombards. He dies 702Births April 20 Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765) Deaths 20 February Chan Bahlum II, king of Maya state of Palenque In other fields 702 is also the area code of Las Vegas, Nevada. 703Events Births Deaths Empress Jito of Japan In Other Fields 703 is the area code for telephone numbers in the Northern Virginia region of the United States. It is overlaid by area code 571. It touches the 202 area code of Washington, DC as well as the 301 704Events Justinian II re-takes the throne of the Byzantine Empire Cenred succeeds to the throne of Mercia after his uncle Aethelred abdicates to become abbot of Bardney Births Deaths Adamnan, abbot of Iona 704. 705Alternate meaning: Area code 705 Events End of the short-lived Zhou Dynasty in China Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik ( 685- 715) succeeded by al-Walid I ibn Abd al-Malik (705- 715) Beginning of a long period of fighting between Trebizond and the Arabs Pope Jo 706Events Umayyad Caliph al-Walid I begins the Great Mosque of Damascus Births Deaths 706. 707Events Empress Gemmei succeeds to the Japanese throne. Births Deaths Emperor Mommu of Japan For the aircraft, see Boeing 707 . 708 709

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