710

Events

• End of the Asuka period, the second and last part of the Yamato period and beginning of the Nara period in Japan.
• Founding of the Muslim Kingdom of Nekor in Morocco.
• Muslim army invited into Ceuta by its governor Don Julian, who, being an opponent of Roderic, encourages them to invade Spain.
• Invasion of Visigothic Spain by Islamic armies, led by Tariq ibn Ziyad.
• The first (wooden) Al-Aqsa Mosque is finished.
• Roderic deposes Achila to become king of the Visigoths.

Deaths

• Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Japanese poet