711

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For the phone number, see 7-1-1. For the convenience store chain, see 7-Eleven.

Years: 707 708 709 710 - 711 - 712 713 714 715

Decades: 680s 690s 700s - 710s - 720s 730s 740s

Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century

Events

• April 30 - Ummayad troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar and begin their invasion of the Iberian peninsula and conquest of the Visigoths(See Moors, Al-Andalus, and Muslim conquest of Iberia)
• July 19 - Ummayad Moors conquer the Iberian peninsula after the Battle of Guadalete
• Philippicus incites a revolt against Justinian II, and upon the latter's death declares himself Byzantine emperor
• Childebert II succeeded by Dagobert III

Births

Deaths

• July - Roderick, king of theVisigoths
• December - Justinian II, Byzantine emperor (assassinated) (b. 669)