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Europe

• April 30 — Ummayad troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar, and begin their invasion of the Iberian peninsula and conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom (See Moors, Al-Andalus, and Umayyad conquest of Hispania).
• July 19 — Battle of Guadalete: Ummayad Moors conquer the Iberian peninsula.
• Childebert II is succeeded by Dagobert III as king of Austrasia.

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Byzantine Empire

• Philippicus incites a revolt against Justinian II, and upon the latter's death declares himself Byzantine Emperor.

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Asia

• After pirates plunder an Arab ship near the mouth of the Indus River, Arabs led by Muhammad bin Qasim invade India with 6,000 horses, establishing a sultanate in Sind.
• Reconstruction of the Horyuji Temple in Japan ends.

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Births

• Emperor Suzong of Tang

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Deaths

• July — Roderick, king of the Visigoths
• December — Justinian II, Byzantine emperor (assassinated) (b. 669)

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