Battle of Covadonga
Pelagius beats the Moors in Asturias: the Reconquista begins
Around 722, in the mountains of Asturias, a band led by the Visigothic noble Pelagius defeated a Muslim force at the cave of Covadonga. The victory secured the independent Kingdom of Asturias, and Spanish tradition counts it as the start of the Reconquista.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Africa
- 698 Fall of Carthage and the Arab conquest of the Maghreb — 24 years earlier
- c. 700 The rise of the Kanem Empire — 22 years earlier
Asia
- 732 The Orkhon inscriptions — 10 years later
Alive at the time
- Li Bai (aged 21)
- Lady Six Sky (aged 40)