717
- For other uses, see 717 (disambiguation).
| Years: 713 714 715 716 – 717 – 718 719 720 721 | |
| Decades: 680s 690s 700s – 710s – 720s 730s 740s | |
| Centuries: 7th century – 8th century – 9th century | |
Events
- March 25 – Leo III usurps the throne of Byzantium
- August 15 – Muslama begins the Second Arab siege of Constantinople. The siege lasts for three months.
- December 24 – An earthquake shakes many places in northern Syria, and destroys the Old Church of Edessa.
- The Pictish king Nechtan expels the monks from the Scottish island of Iona
- Umayyad caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik succeeded by Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
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