Umayyad Mosque
Al-Walid builds the capital's great mosque on a church site
In 705–715 Caliph al-Walid I built the Great Mosque of Damascus on the site of the basilica of John the Baptist. Its mosaics of gardens and palaces follow the Byzantine tradition, and the mosque became a model for many others across the Islamic world.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 680 Battle of Ongal — 25 years earlier
- 711–718 Umayyad conquest of Hispania — 6 years later
- 717–718 Second Arab siege of Constantinople — 12 years later
Africa
- 698 Fall of Carthage and the Arab conquest of the Maghreb — 7 years earlier
- c. 700 The rise of the Kanem Empire — 5 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Wu Zetian (aged 81)
- Li Bai (aged 4)
- Lady Six Sky (aged 23)