Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash‘ath, commonly…

Tiberios III, as emperor, has made the tactical decision to ignore Africa, where Carthage is now definitively lost.

Instead, he has appointed his brother Heraclius as monostrategos of the East, who had firstly strengthened the land and sea defenses of Anatolia before proceeding to attack the Umayyad Caliphate under Abd al-Malik, winning minor victories while raiding into northern Syria in 700 and 701.

Aripert, eight months after assuming the Lombard kingship, faces a rebellion led by Count Raginpert of Turin, son of Godepert, Liutpert's great-uncle, and Raginpert’s son Aripert.

Raginpert and his Neustrians (men of Piedmont) go out to meet the regent, Ansprand, in battle and defeats him at Novara, Raginpert succeeds in capturing Liutpert and seizing the throne in late 700 or early 701, but dies shortly after.

The Peacock Army, under Ibn al-Ash'ath's leadership, returns to Iraq, where it defeats al-Hajjaj, who flees to Basra, and seizes Kufa.

Abdallah, son of Caliph Abd al-Malik, was born around 677 and had grown up in the Caliphate's capital, Damascus.

During his youth he had accompanied his father on several campaigns.

He leads his own campaign for the first time in 700/701, as a retaliation for the attacks of the imperial general Heraclius.

During this expedition, he captures the border fortress of Theodosiopolis and raids into Armenia Minor.

Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath takes Basra in March, 701.

Abdallah is sent, along with his uncle, Muhammad ibn Marwan, to Iraq to aid al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf in subduing the rebellion of Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath in 701.

The revolt gains widespread support among religious scholars known as kurra ("Quran readers"), and develops from a mutiny to a widespread anti-Umayyad rebellion.

Caliph Abd al-Malik tries to negotiate terms, including the dismissal of al-Hajjaj, but hardliners among the rebel leadership pressure Ibn al-Ash'ath into rejecting the Caliph's terms.

Al-Hajjaj and Ibn al-Ash'ath's troops skirmish with each other for several months.

In the subsequent Battle of Dayr al-Jamajim, the rebel army is decisively defeated by al-Hajjaj's Syrian troops in April 701.

Al-Hajjaj pursues the survivors, who under Ibn al-Ash'ath flee to the East.

Most of the rebels are captured by the governor of Khurasan, while Ibn al-Ash'ath himself flees to Zabulistan.

His fate is unclear, as some accounts hold that, after long pressure from al-Hajjaj to surrender him, the Zunbil executed him, while others claim that he committed suicide to avoid being handed over to his enemies.

The defeat marks the end of not only the rebellion but also of the power and influence of the Iraqi Arabs: Iraq is garrisoned by Syrian troops and comes under tight control by the Syrian-dominated Umayyad government.

It will not be until the Abbasid period and the foundation of Baghdad that Iraq will regain its prominence.

Muhammad campaigns later in 701 against the Constantinople-controlled Armenian territory east of the Euphrates, and forces its population and the local governor, Baanes, to submit to the Caliphate.

Soon after his departure, however, the Armenians rebel and call for imperial aid.

The Mount Edziza volcanic complex erupts in northern British Columbia, Canada.

The fifth and final phase of eruptive activity occurred from secondary volcanic vents along the flanks of the four central volcanoes starting ten thousand years ago.

This phase of activity began at a time when remnants of glacial ice were still present and continued after the glacial period.

The initial flank eruptions, quenched by glacial meltwater, formed hyaloclastite tuff rings, whereas later activity created thirty small cinder cones, primarily of basaltic composition, including Mess Lake Cone, Kana Cone, Cinder Cliff, Icefall Cone, Ridge Cone, Williams Cone, Walkout Creek Cone, Moraine Cone, Sidas Cone, Sleet Cone, Storm Cone, Triplex Cone, Twin Cone, Cache Hill, Camp Hill, Cocoa Crater, Coffee Crater, Nahta Cone, Tennena Cone, The Saucer and the well-preserved Eve Cone.

These cinder cones were formed no later than the year 700 based on the age of burnt plant stems still rooted in former soil under two meters (six point six feet) of loose basaltic fragments.

These cinder cones were built on the basaltic fragments and blocky lava fields surrounding the cones.

The Snowshoe lava field, on the southern end of the Big Raven Plateau, is one of the areas of young lava flows in the region while the Desolation lava field, on the northern end of the Big Raven Plateau, is the largest area of young lava flows, covering an area of one hunded and fifty square kilometers.

The longest lava flow is twelve kilometers (seven miles).

This volcanic activity was followed by at least two younger, but still undated eruptions, including an undated air-fall pumice deposit.

The Japanese empire promulgates the Taiho Laws, comprising new civil and penal codes, in 702.

The Taiho Code or Code of Taiho, is an administrative reorganization compiled at the direction of Prince Osakabe, Fujiwara no Fuhito and Awata no Mahito.

The work had been begun at the request of Emperor Mommu and, like many other developments in the country at the time, it is largely an adaptation of the governmental system of China's Tang Dynasty.

The establishment of the Taiho Code is one of the first events to include Confucianism as a significant element in the Japanese code of ethics and government.

The Taiho Code contains only two major departures from the Tang model.

First, government positions and class status are based on birth, as has always been the Japanese tradition, not talent, as is the Chinese way.

Second, the Japanese reject the Chinese concept of the "Mandate of Heaven," asserting that the Emperor's power comes from his imperial descent, not from his righteousness or fairness as a ruler.

The deposed emperor Justinian II, on learning in 703 that Tiberios plans to arrest him, escapes from his place of exile in the Crimea to …