Umayyad conquest of Hispania
The Visigoths fall and the story of al-Andalus begins
An Arab-Berber army under Tariq ibn Ziyad crossed at the rock later named after him and crushed the Visigoths at Guadalete. Within a few years most of Iberia was part of the Umayyad Caliphate, beginning the history of al-Andalus.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Africa
- 698 Fall of Carthage and the Arab conquest of the Maghreb — 13 years earlier
- c. 700 The rise of the Kanem Empire — 11 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Li Bai (aged 10)
- Lady Six Sky (aged 29)