Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century 8th century 9th century
Decades:	680s 690s 700s 710s 720s
Years:	706 707 708 709 710 711 712

709 by topic
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709 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	709 DCCIX
Ab urbe condita	1462
Armenian calendar	158 ԹՎ ՃԾԸ
Assyrian calendar	5459
Balinese saka calendar	630–631
Bengali calendar	116
Berber calendar	1659
Buddhist calendar	1253
Burmese calendar	71
Byzantine calendar	6217–6218
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3406 or 3199 — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3407 or 3200
Coptic calendar	425–426
Discordian calendar	1875
Ethiopian calendar	701–702
Hebrew calendar	4469–4470
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	765–766
- Shaka Samvat	630–631
- Kali Yuga	3809–3810
Holocene calendar	10709
Iranian calendar	87–88
Islamic calendar	90–91
Japanese calendar	Wadō 2 (和銅２年)
Javanese calendar	602–603
Julian calendar	709 DCCIX
Korean calendar	3042
Minguo calendar	1203 before ROC 民前1203年
Nanakshahi calendar	−759
Seleucid era	1020/1021 AG
Thai solar calendar	1251–1252
Tibetan calendar	阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 835 or 454 or −318 — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 836 or 455 or −317

Year 709 (DCCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 709 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

June – Emperor Justinian II sends a punitive expedition to Italy under the patrikios Theodore, to intervene in the dispute between Pope Constantine I and Archbishop Felix of Ravenna, who claims to be independent of the pope's authority. Theodore captures Ravenna, and arrests Felix and other Italian leaders. He deports them to Constantinople, from whence they are exiled to Cherson (Crimea).^[1]^[2]

Ceolred becomes king of Mercia, after his cousin Coenred abdicates the throne. Dynastic rivalries lead to the banishment of his second cousin, prince Æthelbald, who flees to the East Anglian controlled Crowland Fens.
Kings Swæfred and Sigeheard of Essex share power with Offa. He abdicates the throne in order to become a monk in Rome, along with Coenred. Saelred rules jointly with Swæfberht the sub-kingdom of Middlesex.

Arab–Byzantine War: An Umayyad army under Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik raids Isauria (modern Turkey). He is appointed military governor of Armenia and Azerbaijan, succeeding his uncle Muhammad ibn Marwan.^[3]
After two years of failed efforts, Qutayba ibn Muslim captures Bukhara (Uzbekistan) for the Umayyad Caliphate. The Hephthalite princes of Tokharistan rebel against the Arabs, but are swiftly subdued by Qutayba.

Mont Saint-Michel, built by Aubert, bishop of Avranches, has its beginnings in an oratory on Mont Tombe, on the coast of Normandy (approximate date).

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