697. Election of the first doge, with a council of tribunes and judges,
in Venice. See "EVOLUTION OF THE DOGESHIP IN VENICE," iv, 292.
698. Hasan, at the head of the Saracens, storms and destroys Carthage.
699. At Mount Atlas the Berbers, or wild shepherds, successfully resist
the advance of the Mahometans.
705. An army of Bulgarians, under Terbelis, restores Justinian to his
throne; he inflicts bloody vengeance for his expulsion.
Accession of Caliph Welid.
706. Pope John VII refuses to accept, or even revise, the acts of the
Council of Constantinople, A.D. 691, which Justinian requires him to
adopt.
707. The Mahometans, under Musa, overcome the Berbers and are masters of
all Northern Africa; they establish themselves in the valley of the
Indus and conquer Karisme, Bokhara, and Samarkand, whence they introduce
the manufacture of paper.
708. Justinian, unmindful of his obligations to Terbelis, attacks the
Bulgarians, but is defeated.
709. Roderic ascends the Gothic throne in Spain.
Theodorus, by order of the Emperor Justinian, plunders Ravenna and sends
the principal inhabitants to Constantinople, where they are cruelly
murdered.
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