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Gregorian calendar 720
DCCXX
Ab urbe condita 1473
Armenian calendar 169
ԹՎ ՃԿԹ
Assyrian calendar 5470
Balinese saka calendar 641–642
Bengali calendar 127
Berber calendar 1670
Buddhist calendar 1264
Burmese calendar 82
Byzantine calendar 6228–6229
Chinese calendar 己未年 (Earth  Goat)
3417 or 3210
     to 
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3418 or 3211
Coptic calendar 436–437
Discordian calendar 1886
Ethiopian calendar 712–713
Hebrew calendar 4480–4481
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 - Vikram Samvat 776–777
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 - Kali Yuga 3820–3821
Holocene calendar 10720
Iranian calendar 98–99
Islamic calendar 101–102
Japanese calendar Yōrō 4
(養老4年)
Javanese calendar 613–614
Julian calendar 720
DCCXX
Korean calendar 3053
Minguo calendar 1192 before ROC
民前1192年
Nanakshahi calendar −748
Seleucid era 1031/1032 AG
Thai solar calendar 1262–1263
Tibetan calendar 阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
846 or 465 or −307
     to 
阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
847 or 466 or −306
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Fujiwara no Fuhito (659-720) Fujiwara-Fuhito.jpg
Fujiwara no Fuhito (659–720)

Year 720 ( DCCXX ) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 720 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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References

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