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- February 20 - In a coup d'état, Chinese Chancellor Zhang Jianzhi murdered the Zhang brothers and restored Emperor Zhongzong. This marks the end of the short-lived Zhou Dynasty in China
- Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik succeeded by al-Walid I ibn Abd al-Malik.
- Beginning of a long period of fighting between Trebizond and the Arabs
- Pope John VII succeeds Pope John VI.