720

Years: 716 717 718 719 - 720 - 721 722 723 724

Decades: 690s 700s 710s - 720s - 730s 740s 750s

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

Events

• Umayyad caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz succeeded by Yazid II ibn Abd al-Malik
• The Nihonshoki (日本書紀), one of the oldest history book in Japan, is completed

Births

• Bertrada, wife of Pippin III (d. 783)
• Pope Stephen IV (d. 772)

Deaths

• Sainte Odile, patron saint of Alsace
• Tariq ibn Ziyad, Moorish general