705

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	670s  680s  690s  – 700s –  710s  720s  730s
Years:	702 703 704 – 705 – 706 707 708

705 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	705 DCCV
Ab urbe condita	1458
Armenian calendar	154 ԹՎ ՃԾԴ
Assyrian calendar	5455
Balinese saka calendar	626–627
Bengali calendar	112
Berber calendar	1655
Buddhist calendar	1249
Burmese calendar	67
Byzantine calendar	6213–6214
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 3401 or 3341     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3402 or 3342
Coptic calendar	421–422
Discordian calendar	1871
Ethiopian calendar	697–698
Hebrew calendar	4465–4466
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	761–762
- Shaka Samvat	626–627
- Kali Yuga	3805–3806
Holocene calendar	10705
Iranian calendar	83–84
Islamic calendar	85–87
Japanese calendar	Keiun 2 (慶雲２年)
Javanese calendar	597–598
Julian calendar	705 DCCV
Korean calendar	3038
Minguo calendar	1207 before ROC 民前1207年
Nanakshahi calendar	−763
Seleucid era	1016/1017 AG
Thai solar calendar	1247–1248
Tibetan calendar	阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 831 or 450 or −322     — to — 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 832 or 451 or −321

705 (DCCV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 705th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 705th year of the 1st millennium, the 5th year of the 8th century, and the 6th year of the 700s decade. As of the start of 705, the Gregorian calendar was 4 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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 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.

Births

• Amoghavajra, Chinese translator and Buddhist

Deaths

• January 11 – Pope John VI
• November – 武則天