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  • 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 in China
  • 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 Arabs
  • Pope John VII succeeds Pope John VI.

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