First Doge of Venice
The lagoon elects a doge; the republic will last 1,100 years
Tradition holds that in 697 the lagoon communities elected their first doge, Paolo Lucio Anafesto, founding the Most Serene Republic of Venice, a great trading and naval power. Over 1,100 years 120 doges reigned, until on 12 May 1797, after Napoleon's ultimatum, the last, Ludovico Manin, abdicated and the Great Council dissolved the republic.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 680 Battle of Karbala — 17 years earlier
- 691 Dome of the Rock — 6 years earlier
Africa
- 698 Fall of Carthage and the Arab conquest of the Maghreb — 1 year later
- c. 700 The rise of the Kanem Empire — 3 years later
Asia
- 712 Qutayba ibn Muslim takes Samarkand — 15 years later
Alive at the time
- Wu Zetian (aged 73)
- Lady Six Sky (aged 15)