723
Year 723 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 723 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
By place
Asia
- Gunakamadeva, Lichhavi ruler, founds the city of Kathmandu. During his reign, he transforms the agrarian society to an industrial city trading between India and Tibet.
By topic
Religion
- Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary, fells Thor's Oak near Fritzlar in Hesse, marking the decisive event in the Christianization of the northern Germanic tribes.
- Boniface makes Büraburg, a fortified Frankish settlement, his temporary religious base.
Births
- Arbeo, bishop of Freising
- Isonokami no Yakatsugu, Japanese nobleman
Deaths
- October 3 - Elias I of Antioch, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.
- Adalbert, duke of Alsace
- Fachtna mac Folachtan, Irish abbot
- Ō no Yasumaro, Japanese nobleman