* Wu Zetian, Empress of China from 690 to 705

* February 17 – Wu Zetian, Empress of the Zhou Dynasty of China ( d. 705 )

The dynasty was interrupted briefly by the Second Zhou Dynasty ( October 8, 690 – March 3, 705 ) when Empress Wu Zetian seized the throne, becoming the only Chinese empress regnant, ruling in her own right.

Wu Zetian ( ( c. 625 – 705 ), also known as Wu Zhao or Wu Chao and as Wu-hou or Wu Hou (), and during the Tang Dynasty as Tian Hou ( 天后 ), Dynasty ), and in English translation as Empress Consort Wu, or the deprecated term " Empress Wu " was a Chinese sovereign, who ruled officially under the name of her self-proclaimed " Zhou Dynasty ", from 690 to 705 ; however, she had previous imperial positions, under both Taizong and his son Gaozong, of the Tang Dynasty, in China.

Her tenure as de facto ruler of China ( first through her husband and then through her sons, from 665 to 690 ), was not without precedent, in Chinese history ; however, she broke precedents when she founded her own dynasty in 690, the Zhou ( 周 ) ( interrupting the Tang Dynasty ), ruling personally under the name Sacred and Divine Empress Regnant ( 聖神皇帝 ), and variations thereof, from 690 to 705.

Empress Wu Zetian ( 684 – 705 ) supported the Hua-yen school of Fazang.

In 705, after Emperor Zhongzong's sudden death, Li Longji and Emperor Zhongzong's sister Princess Taiping overthrew Emperor Zhongzong's powerful wife Empress Wei and returned Li Dan to the throne.

There is mention during the Liang Dynasty ( 502 – 557 ) that gimbals were used for hinges of doors and windows, while an artisan once presented a portable warming stove to Empress Wu Zetian ( r. 690 – 705 ) which employed gimbals.

Following the AD 705 coup that removed the Empress Wu Zetian from power, her ally Li Jiongxiu was also briefly demoted to superintendence of this province.

The practice existed as far back as the Tang Dynasty, when Empress Wu Zetian ( 625 – 705 ) sent a pair of pandas to the Japanese emperor.

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* Zhou Dynasty ( 690 – 705 ), also known as the Second Zhou Dynasty, founded by Wu Zetian, interrupted the Tang Dynasty

After Gaozong's debilitating stroke in 660, Wu Zetian ruled as effective sovereign until 705.

Wu Zetian was born as Wu Zhao, in Lizhou ( 利州 ) ( modern day Guangyuan City in Sichuan Province ), or else in the imperial capital of Chang ' an, during the reign of Emperor Gaozu of Tang, and lived from 17 February 624 – 16 December 705 < ref name = death >

Wu Zetian ( 624 – 705 ), also romanized as Wu Ze Tian or Wu Tse-Tien, was a Chinese empress of the Zhou dynasty ( 690 – 705 ).

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* Zhou Dynasty ( 690 – 705 ), founded by Wu Zetian, during the Tang Dynasty

In 705, Wu Zetian was overthrown in a coup, in which Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong were killed.

On 20 February 705, a palace coup deposed Wu Zetian and Emperor Zhongzong was restored as emperor three days later.

In 705, Wu Zetian was overthrown, and Li Xian, a former emperor, returned to the throne ( as Emperor Zhongzong ).

In 705, a coup overthrew Wu Zetian and restored Emperor Zhongzong to the throne.

In 705, Wu Zetian was overthrown in a coup led by Zhang Jianzhi, Cui Xuanwei, Huan Yanfan, Jing Hui, and Yuan Shuji.

The origins of falconry have been traced to Mesopotamia and the earliest record comes from the reign of Sargon II ( 722 – 705 BC ).

The palace Khirbat al-Minya was built by the lake during the reign of the Umayyad caliph al-Walid I ( 705 – 715 CE ).

Consequently, he generated enormous opposition to his reign, and it resulted in his deposition in 695 in a popular uprising, and he only returned to the throne in 705 with the help of a Bulgar and Slav army.

During the reign of Sargon, the Assyrians had occupied Cyprus, but following Sargon's death in 705, Luli reclaimed the island and its colony of Kition.

Solidus of Justinian II, second reign, after 705

Uqba ibn Nafi began the Arab conquest of the region, during the reign of the Umayyad Caliphate, a conquest which was completed in AD 705 by Musa bin Nusair.

The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn dates his reign to 725 – 705 BC, that of the Annals of the Four Masters to 952 – 930 BC.

This map is thought to date from the reign of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang ( 705 – 710 ).

Malik-rammi ( possibly meaning " Great King " or " King of Multitudes ") was king of Udumi ( Edom ) around the year 705 BCE, during the reign of the Assyrian king Sennacherib.

Sherborne was the new see, of which Aldhelm became the first bishop around 705.

When the Saxon Diocese of Sherborne was founded in 705 by King Ine of Wessex, he set Aldhelm as first Bishop of the see of Western Wessex, with his seat at Sherborne.

Route 42 southbound at the Atlantic City Expressway split in Turnersville, New Jersey | TurnersvilleUpon becoming the North – South Freeway, Route 42 crosses into Gloucester Township, Camden County and comes to the first numbered exit for County Route 705, which provides access to Route 168.

The first recorded mention of the town is the grant of land at Hamaele by Offa, King of Essex, to the Saxon Bishop of London in AD 705.

In 705 the diocese was split between Sherborne and Winchester, and King Ine founded an Abbey for St Aldhelm, the first bishop of Sherborne.

The first psychiatric hospital ward was founded in Baghdad in 705, and insane asylums were built in Fes in the early 8th century, Cairo in 800 and in Damascus and Aleppo in 1270.

In the first phase ( 18 to 1 November December 2011 ) of regrouping, 9, 705 former combatants had chosen integration into the NA.

* The Royal Navy forms its first all-helicopter squadron, No. 705 Squadron, which serves as the Fleet Air Arms Helicopter Fleet Requirements Unit at Gosport.

During his tenure as the show's host, Nelson terminated the invention exchanges ( last exchange during episode 519, Outlaw ) and letter readings ( episode 705, Escape 2000 ) that were a staple of the show's first five years, ending some popular traditions but giving the writers much more freedom in creating the opening and closing sketches.

Wells Cathedral – the first church on this site was built in 705 AD

The office originated under the rule of the first Umayyad caliphs ( AH 40 – 85 / 661 – 705 CE ), when the provincial governors of the newly created Islamic empire, unable to adjudicate the many disputes that arose among Muslims living within their territories, began to delegate this function to others.

This Test included a double century to Sachin Tendulkar in the Indians ' first innings of 7 / 705 where Sachin and V. V. S.

In 1949, Samuel S. Wurtzel opened the first Wards Company retail store in Richmond, Virginia, at 705 West Broad Street.

Aldhelm was the first bishop of the Diocese of Sherborne, created in 705 AD.

The first Autocoders were released in 1955 for the IBM 702 and in 1956 for the almost compatible IBM 705.

He is first mentioned as leading, along with al -' Abbas ibn al-Walid, the annual summer campaigns against Byzantium ( ṣawā ' if ) in 705.

He commissioned three lives of the Saint, the first by an anonymous writer, written between 699 and 705.

Karnataka lost the final to Delhi despite scoring 705 in the first innings.

The library is an archaeological discovery credited to Austen Henry Layard ; most tablets were taken to England and can now be found in the British Museum, but a first discovery was made in late 1849 in the so-called South-West Palace, which was the Royal Palace of king Sennacherib ( 705 – 681 BC ).