710
| Years: 706 707 708 709 - 710 - 711 712 713 714 | |
| Decades: 680s 690s 700s - 710s - 720s 730s 740s | |
| Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century | |
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