[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Europe

• April 30—Ummayad troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar, and begin their invasion of the Iberian peninsula and conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom (See Moors, Al-Andalus, and Umayyad conquest of Hispania).
• July 19—Battle of Guadalete: Ummayad Moors' victory over the Visigothic army. Visigothic king Roderick dies in the battle.
• Childebert II is succeeded by Dagobert III as king of Austrasia.

[edit] Byzantine Empire

• Philippicus incites a revolt against Justinian II, and upon the latter's death declares himself Byzantine Emperor.

[edit] Asia

• After pirates plunder an Arab ship near the mouth of the Indus River, Arabs led by Muhammad bin Qasim invade India with 6,000 horses, establishing a sultanate in Sind.
• Reconstruction of the Horyuji Temple in Japan ends.

[edit] Births

• Emperor Suzong of Tang

[edit] Deaths

• July—Roderick, king of the Visigoths
• December—Justinian II, Byzantine emperor (assassinated) (b. 669)