Year in Japan
700 in Japanese History
7 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Asuka period (飛鳥時代, 538 – 710).
What happened 出来事
- Ichinomiya-ji Temple 一宮寺 · Buddhist temple — Shingon temple in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, which is Temple 83 on the Shikoku 88 temple p
- Hōrin-ji Temple 法輪寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan
- Soga no Iruka 蘇我入鹿 · Politician — statesman
- Hieda no Are 稗田阿礼 · Historian — Compliled the Japanese text Kojiki in 712
- Taima-dera Temple 當麻寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan
- Chūgū-ji Temple 中宮寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan
- Manshu-in Temple 曼殊院 · Buddhist temple — anglican priest
Reading the year 700 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".
The year itself is read 700年 (700ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 7th century for its neighbours.