704
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Year of the Wood Dragon甲辰( at the beginning of the year, water - hare癸卯)
Era of Diocletian 420/421
Syria: 1015/16 ( the year in October )
Events
- Æthelred, king of Mercia, abdicates. He goes as a monk in a monastery, where he died 716. His successor will Cenred.
- The little -month-old Khri - lde - gTsug brtsan is new Tibetan king.
Born
- Hyecho, a Buddhist monk in Korea († 787)
Died
- Adomnan, Abbot of Iona, biographer of St. Columban (c. 628)
- Year ( 8th century )
- 704