710 - Definition and Overview

Events

• End of the Asuka period, the second and last part of the Yamato period and beginning of the Nara period in Japan.
• Founding of the Muslim Kingdom of Nekor in Morocco.
• Muslim army invited into Ceuta by its governor Don Julian, who, being an opponent of Roderic, encourages them to invade Spain.
• Invasion of Visigothic Spain by Islamic armies, led by Tariq ibn Ziyad.
• The first (wooden) Al-Aqsa Mosque is finished.
• Roderic deposes Achila to become king of the Visigoths.

Deaths

• Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Japanese poet

In Other Fields

• This is the area code reserved to the U.S. Government for emergency use. It currently has only one working number, 710-NCS-GETS. (710-627-4387) which requires a special access code to use.