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This article is about the year 717. For the aircraft, see Boeing 717. For other uses of this term, see 717 (disambiguation).

Centuries:	7th century - 8th century - 9th century
Decades:	680s  690s  700s  - 710s -  720s  730s  740s
Years:	714 715 716 - 717 - 718 719 720

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Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

717 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	717 DCCXVII
Ab urbe condita	1470
Armenian calendar	166 ԹՎ ՃԿԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-1127 – -1126
Berber calendar	1667
Buddhist calendar	1261
Burmese calendar	79
Byzantine calendar	6225 – 6226
Chinese calendar	丙辰年十二月十四日 (3353/3413-12-14) — to — 丁巳年十一月廿四日 (3354/3414-11-24)
Coptic calendar	433 – 434
Ethiopian calendar	709 – 710
Hebrew calendar	4477 – 4478
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	772 – 773
- Shaka Samvat	639 – 640
- Kali Yuga	3818 – 3819
Holocene calendar	10717
Iranian calendar	95 – 96
Islamic calendar	98 – 99
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3050
Thai solar calendar	1260
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[edit] Events

[edit] By Place

[edit] Europe

• March 21 — The Battle of Vincy is fought between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.

[edit] Byzantine Empire

• March 25 — Leo III usurps the throne of Byzantium.
• August 15 — Maslama begins the Second Arab siege of Constantinople. The siege lasts for nearly a year.

[edit] Asia

• December 24 — An earthquake shakes many places in northern Syria, and destroys the Old Church of Edessa.
• Umayyad caliph al-Walid I ibn Abd al-Malik is succeeded by Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik.
• Hoshi Ryokan, world's longest running business, formed in Japan.

[edit] By Topic

[edit] Religion

• King Nechtan IV of the Picts expels the monks from the Scottish island of Iona.

[edit] Births

• Rabi’ah al-Adawiyya, classical Islamic poetess

[edit] Deaths

• Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph