710

Decades: 660s 670s 680s 690s 700s - 710s - 720s 730s 740s 750s 760s

Years: 705 706 707 708 709 - 710 - 711 712 713 714 715

• End of the Asuka period, the second and last part of the Yamato period and beginning of the Nara period in Japan.
• Invasion of Visigothic Spain by the forces of Islam
• Muslim conquest of Ceuta
• The first (wooden) Al-Aqsa Mosque is finished
• Roderic deposes Achila to become king of the Visigoths.

Deaths

• Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Japanese poet