What is 705?
{{Year nav|705}} {{Year in various calendars|705}} {{Year article header|705}} == Events == *[[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 (690 AD - 705 AD)|Zhou Dynasty]] in [[China]] *[[Umayyads|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 [[Arab]]s *[[Pope John VII]] succeeds [[Pope John VI]]. == Births == * [[Amoghavajra]], Chinese translator and Buddhist == Deaths == * January 11 – Pope John VI * November &ndash; 武則天 [[Category:705| ]]