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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | \'Years:
713 714 715 716 - 717 - 718 719 720 721\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
680s 690s 700s - 710s - 720s 730s 740s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
7th century - 8th century' - 9th century\n|} Events\n*March 25 - Leo III usurps the throne of Byzantium\n*August 15 - Muslama begins the Second Arab siege of Constantinople. The siege lasts for three months.\n*December 24 - An earthquake shakes many places in northern Syria, and destroys the Old Church of Edessa.\n* Umayyad caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik succeeded by Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz Births Deaths

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\nFor the aircraft, see Boeing 717. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n