The Nihon Shoki (日本書紀), one of the oldest history books in Japan, is completed under the editorial supervision of Prince Toneri, and with the assistance of Ō no Yasumaro. Religion Contact between the Welsh Church and Yvi of Brittany is the last known link between two Celtic countries. After this, each nation goes its own separate way (approximate date). Astronomy A second series of gravitational interactions with Saturn, the second since 1664 BC, once again force the Centaur (minor planet) Chiron into a new orbit, shifting it from orbiting in the edges of the Solar System to orbiting near the inner regions. Births Baizhang Huaihai, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 814) Bernard, Frankish nobleman (approximate date) Bertrada of Laon, wife of Pippin the Short (d. 783) Modestus, Irish missionary (approximate date) Thierry IV, Frankish nobleman (approximate date) Deaths Ardo, king of the Visigoths (or 721) Aubert of Avranches, Frankish bishop Fujiwara no Fuhito, Japanese statesman (b. 659) Muhammad ibn Marwan, Muslim general (or 719) Odile of Alsace, Frankish abbess (approximate date) Tariq ibn Ziyad, Muslim general (b. 670) Umar II, Muslim caliph (b. 682) Xue Ne, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 649) Yazid ibn al-Muhallab, Muslim governor (b. 672) Yeh Fa-shan, Daoist wonder-worker (b. 631) Jamila, Arabian qiyan-courtesan singer References