AD 727

Year 727 (DCCXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 727 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century 8th century 9th century
Decades:	700s 710s 720s 730s 740s
Years:	724 725 726 727 728 729 730

727 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	727 DCCXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1480
Armenian calendar	176 ԹՎ ՃՀԶ
Assyrian calendar	5477
Balinese saka calendar	648–649
Bengali calendar	134
Berber calendar	1677
Buddhist calendar	1271
Burmese calendar	89
Byzantine calendar	6235–6236
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 3423 or 3363     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3424 or 3364
Coptic calendar	443–444
Discordian calendar	1893
Ethiopian calendar	719–720
Hebrew calendar	4487–4488
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	783–784
- Shaka Samvat	648–649
- Kali Yuga	3827–3828
Holocene calendar	10727
Iranian calendar	105–106
Islamic calendar	108–109
Japanese calendar	Jinki 4 (神亀４年)
Javanese calendar	620–621
Julian calendar	727 DCCXXVII
Korean calendar	3060
Minguo calendar	1185 before ROC 民前1185年
Nanakshahi calendar	−741
Seleucid era	1038/1039 AG
Thai solar calendar	1269–1270
Tibetan calendar	阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 853 or 472 or −300     — to — 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 854 or 473 or −299

Possibly image of Hubertus (c. 656–727)

Events

Byzantine Empire

• A revolt breaks out in Greece against the religious policies of Emperor Leo III (see 726). A rebel fleet under Agallianos Kontoskeles sets out for Constantinople with Kosmas, an anti-emperor, but is destroyed by the Byzantine fleet through the use of Greek fire.[1]
• Siege of Nicaea: Muslim forces under Mu'awiya ibn Hisham (son of Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik) penetrate deep into Asia Minor, and sack the fortress city of Gangra, but unsuccessfully lay siege to Nicaea (northwestern Anatolia).[2][3]

Europe

• A revolt breaks out in Italy against Leo's Iconoclasm; this results in the independence of the Exarchate of Ravenna, after part of a Byzantine invasion force is lost in a storm in the Adriatic Sea, and the remainder of Byzantine troops are repulsed.
• King Liutprand takes advantage of the anti-imperial turmoil. He conquers Bologna and other cities beyond the Po River (Northern Italy). The Lombards take "Classis", the strategic seaport of Ravenna, and overrun the Pentapolis.[4]

Asia

• Arab–Khazar War: The Khazars drive back the Muslim invasion, led by Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik, into Mesopotamia. Reinforced with Syrian troops, Maslama counterattacks and takes Georgia, establishing the northern frontier on the Caucasus.

Religion

• July – Pope Gregory II condemns iconoclasm at Rome, causing Italy to break with the Byzantine Empire. He becomes the virtual temporal ruler of most Byzantine possessions.

Births

• January 9 – Dai Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 779)
• Fujiwara no Tsuginawa, Japanese statesman (d. 796)
• Liu Peng, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 785)
• Sakanoue no Karitamaro, Japanese general (d. 786)
• Yang Yan, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 781)

Deaths

• April 18 – Agallianos Kontoskeles, Byzantine commander and rebel leader
• May 30 – Hubertus, bishop of Liège
• October 19 – Frithuswith or Frideswide, Anglo-Saxon princess and abbess
• Murchad mac Brain Mut, king of Leinster (Ireland)
• Paul, exarch of Ravenna
• Yi Xing, Chinese astronomer and mechanical engineer (b. 683)

References

1. Pryor & Jeffreys (2006), pp. 32, 46, 73
2. Canard (1986), pp. 1002–1003
3. Blankinship (1994), p. 120
4. Mann, p. 187