Capital at Nara
Japan builds its first permanent capital on the model of Chang'an
In 710 Empress Genmei moved the court to the new city of Heijō-kyō, today's Nara, laid out on a street grid modelled on Tang Chang'an. The capital stayed there until 784; the Nara period was an age of flourishing Buddhism and Japan's first chronicles.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 711–718 Umayyad conquest of Hispania — 1 year later
- 717–718 Second Arab siege of Constantinople — 7 years later
- 732 Battle of Tours — 22 years later
Middle East
- 691 Dome of the Rock — 19 years earlier
Africa
- 698 Fall of Carthage and the Arab conquest of the Maghreb — 12 years earlier
- c. 700 The rise of the Kanem Empire — 10 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Li Bai (aged 9)
- Lady Six Sky (aged 28)