711

This article is about the year 711. For the convenience store, see 7-Eleven. For other uses, see 711 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century · 8th century · 9th century
Decades:	680s · 690s · 700s · 710s · 720s · 730s · 740s
Years:	708 · 709 · 710 · 711 · 712 · 713 · 714

711 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

711 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	711 DCCXI
Ab urbe condita	1464
Armenian calendar	160 ԹՎ ՃԿ
Assyrian calendar	5461
Bengali calendar	118
Berber calendar	1661
Buddhist calendar	1255
Burmese calendar	73
Byzantine calendar	6219–6220
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3407 or 3347 — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3408 or 3348
Coptic calendar	427–428
Discordian calendar	1877
Ethiopian calendar	703–704
Hebrew calendar	4471–4472
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	767–768
- Shaka Samvat	632–633
- Kali Yuga	3811–3812
Holocene calendar	10711
Iranian calendar	89–90
Islamic calendar	92–93
Japanese calendar	Wadō 4 (和銅４年)
Javanese calendar	604–605
Julian calendar	711 DCCXI
Korean calendar	3044
Minguo calendar	1201 before ROC 民前1201年
Nanakshahi calendar	−757
Seleucid era	1022/1023 AG
Thai solar calendar	1253–1254

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Muhammad ibn Qasim leading his troops in battle

Qasim's expedition into northwestern India

Year 711 (DCCXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 711 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

Philippicus incites the inhabitants of Cherson to revolt, with the help of the Khazars. Emperor Justinian II sallies forth from Constantinople to oppose the rebels in the Crimea. Philippicus defeats the Byzantine forces in northern Anatolia, and seizes the capital. He is proclaimed emperor and Justinian is executed, ending the house of Heraclius, that has ruled since 610.
December – Empress Theodora, hearing the news of Justinian's death, escapes with her 6-year-old son Tiberius to the sanctuary at the St. Mary's Church (Istanbul). She is pursued by Philippicus' henchmen, who drag the child from the altar and murder him outside the church.

Ansprand, duke of Asti, returns from exile to Italy with a large Bavarian army. Many Austrians (with troops of Venetia) join him in support. King Aripert II, who has usurped the throne (see 701), is defeated and tries to escape from Pavia to Gaul with his treasury, but he drowns in the Ticino River. He is the last Bavarian to wear the Iron Crown (approximate date).
Peaceful relations between Franks and Frisians are consolidated by the marriage of Pepin of Herstal's son Grimoald to Theudesinda, daughter of King Radbod.
April 23 – King Childebert III dies after a 16-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Dagobert III as ruler of Austrasia. Pepin of Herstal becomes his regent.

Dux Berhtfrith leads a Northumbrian campaign against the Picts, and defeats them in Manaw Gododdin (modern Scotland) (approximate date).

April 27 – Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Muslim troops (7,000 men) led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar, and begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus). Tariq begins his Islamic conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom, which during the decade he occupies and brings under Umayyad sovereignty.
July 19 – Battle of Guadalete: The Muslim Berbers defeat the Visigothic army (33,000 men) under King Roderick, who dies in battle. The Visigoth capital of Toledo open its city gates; Tariq ibn Ziyad sends Moorish detachments to capture the cities of Córdoba and Seville (Andalusia).

After pirates plunder an Arab ship near the mouth of the Indus River (Pakistan), Syrian Arabs under Muhammad ibn Qasim invade India with 10,000 men and 6,000 horses, establishing a sultanate in Sindh. Qasim sends expeditions to Surashtra, where he makes peaceful treaty settlements with the Rashtrakuta.^[1]
Muhammad ibn Qasim captures the fortress city of Multan after a long siege, and raids with his forces the Punjab region, with only light Muslim casualties.^[2]

↑ Alexander Berzin, Part I: The Umayyad Caliphate (661 - 750 CE), "The First Muslim Incursion into the Indian Subcontinent". The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire Last accessed. September 11, 2007.
↑ Wink (2004), pp 201–205

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