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• July 2 - In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang had the remains of his mother and recently-deceased ruling empress Wu Zetian, her son Li Xian, her grandson Li Chongrun, and granddaughter Li Xianhui all interred in at the same tomb complex as his father and Wu Zetian's husband Emperor Gaozong (d. 683) outside Chang'an known as the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang.

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Religion

• Umayyad Caliph al-Walid I begins the Great Mosque of Damascus.

Births

• Eoppa de Wessex (d. 789)
• Han Gan, painter during the Tang Dynasty (d. 783)

Deaths

• Shenxiu, Chinese Zen Buddhist patriarch of the Tang Dynasty
• Zhang Jianzhi, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 625)

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