Who ruled
- Second Göktürk Khaganate Kapgan Khan 691–716 · Inel Khan 699–716
And beyond the steppe
- China Tang Zhongzong 705–710 · Ruizong 710–712
- Iran Umayyad al-Walid I 705–715
- Korea Silla Seongdeok 702–737
- Byzantium Heraclian Justinian II 705–711
Eastern steppe
-
Environment · Central Mongolia turns drier, by the lake record, and stays so to 1300; the droughts of the Medieval Climate Anomaly (700–1300)
-
Tonyukuk crosses the Kögmen in winter by a single-horse track and kills the Kirghiz khan in his sleep, breaking the northern arm of the coalition of the Tang, the Ten Arrows and the Kirghiz
Tonyukuk · Kül Tegin · Yenisei Kirghiz · Second Göktürk Khaganate · Göktürk campaign against the Kirghiz (710)
Also dated 711 (one modern reckoning): Kül Tegin's age of twenty-six gives 710 if he was born in 684; the same reckoning dates the western campaigns about 711.
