Decades: 650s 660s 670s 680s 690s - 700s - 710s 720s 730s 740s 750s

Years: 700 701 702 703 704 - 705 - 706 707 708 709 710

• End of the short-lived Zhou Dynasty in China
• Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik (685-715) succeeded by al-Walid I ibn Abd al-Malik (705-715)
• Beginning of a long period of fighting between Trebizond and the Arabs
• Pope John VII succeeds Pope John VI

Deaths

• January 11 - John VI, Pope