What is 710?
{{Year nav|710}} {{Year in various calendars|710}} {{Year article header|710}} == Events == *End of the [[Asuka period]], the second and last part of the [[Yamato period]] and beginning of the [[Nara period]] in [[Japan]]; [[Heijō Kyō|Heijō-kyō]] ([[Nara, Nara|Nara]]) becomes the [[capital of Japan]]. *[[April 5]] — During the [[Cold Food Festival]], Chinese [[Emperor Zhongzong of Tang]] had his chief ministers of court, sons-in-law, and high-ranking military officers engage in the festive game of [[tug of war]] within a [[palace]] of [[Chang'an]] City. The Emperor purportedly laughed when two older ministers fell over during the game. *Founding of the Muslim [[Kingdom of Nekor]] in [[Morocco]]. *Muslim army invited into [[Ceuta]] by its governor, [[Julian, count of Ceuta|Count Julian]], who, being an opponent of Roderick, encourages them to invade the [[Iberian peninsula]]. *[[Roderic]]k deposes [[Achila]] to become king of the [[Visigoths]]. *The first (wooden) [[Al-Aqsa Mosque]] is finished. == Deaths == *[[Kakinomoto no Hitomaro]], Japanese [[poet]] *Saint [[Adalbert of Egmond]] *[[Emperor Zhongzong of Tang China]] (assassinated, b. [[656]]) *[[Shangguan Wan'er]], female Chinese poet and official of the [[Tang Dynasty]] (born [[664]]) [[Category:710| ]]