Events

• August 11 - Germanus is translated from the bishopric of Cyzicus to the Patriarch of Constantinople
• Umayyad caliph al-Walid I ibn Abd al-Malik succeeded by Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik
• End of the reign of Empress Gemmei of Japan, she is succeeded by Empress Gensho.
• Gregory II elected pope (or 716)
• Saint Boniface sets out on a missionary expedition to the Frisians

Births

Deaths

• April 9 - Pope Constantine