The Mount Edziza volcanic complex erupts in northern British Columbia, Canada.

The fifth and final phase of eruptive activity occurred from secondary volcanic vents along the flanks of the four central volcanoes starting ten thousand years ago.

This phase of activity began at a time when remnants of glacial ice were still present and continued after the glacial period.

The initial flank eruptions, quenched by glacial meltwater, formed hyaloclastite tuff rings, whereas later activity created thirty small cinder cones, primarily of basaltic composition, including Mess Lake Cone, Kana Cone, Cinder Cliff, Icefall Cone, Ridge Cone, Williams Cone, Walkout Creek Cone, Moraine Cone, Sidas Cone, Sleet Cone, Storm Cone, Triplex Cone, Twin Cone, Cache Hill, Camp Hill, Cocoa Crater, Coffee Crater, Nahta Cone, Tennena Cone, The Saucer and the well-preserved Eve Cone.

These cinder cones were formed no later than the year 700 based on the age of burnt plant stems still rooted in former soil under two meters (six point six feet) of loose basaltic fragments.

These cinder cones were built on the basaltic fragments and blocky lava fields surrounding the cones.

The Snowshoe lava field, on the southern end of the Big Raven Plateau, is one of the areas of young lava flows in the region while the Desolation lava field, on the northern end of the Big Raven Plateau, is the largest area of young lava flows, covering an area of one hunded and fifty square kilometers.

The longest lava flow is twelve kilometers (seven miles).

This volcanic activity was followed by at least two younger, but still undated eruptions, including an undated air-fall pumice deposit.

The Japanese empire promulgates the Taiho Laws, comprising new civil and penal codes, in 702.

The Taiho Code or Code of Taiho, is an administrative reorganization compiled at the direction of Prince Osakabe, Fujiwara no Fuhito and Awata no Mahito.

The work had been begun at the request of Emperor Mommu and, like many other developments in the country at the time, it is largely an adaptation of the governmental system of China's Tang Dynasty.

The establishment of the Taiho Code is one of the first events to include Confucianism as a significant element in the Japanese code of ethics and government.

The Taiho Code contains only two major departures from the Tang model.

First, government positions and class status are based on birth, as has always been the Japanese tradition, not talent, as is the Chinese way.

Second, the Japanese reject the Chinese concept of the "Mandate of Heaven," asserting that the Emperor's power comes from his imperial descent, not from his righteousness or fairness as a ruler.

The deposed emperor Justinian II, on learning in 703 that Tiberios plans to arrest him, escapes from his place of exile in the Crimea to …

Al-Hajjaj, realizing that he can no longer trust the Iraqis, builds a new city, Wasit, on the Tigris River, between Basra and Kufah, in 702, planning it as a garrison city for Syrian troops and as his private residence.

Hereafter, he will rule Iraq as enemy territory.

Liutpert succeeds in returning to the throne several months later upon Raginpert's death, only to be deposed again, taken captive from Pavia, and drowned by Aripert II, Raginpert's son, in his bath.

Aripert seizes the capital and forces Ansprand over the Alps.

Muslim Arab forces overrun Cilicia in the early 700s, then turn northward to invade …

…Pontus; both are imperial dependencies.

The reign of Aripert II is a troubled one.

aroald, duke of Spoleto in 703, attacks the Exarchate of Ravenna, but Aripert refuses to assist him, for he wants good relations with papacy and empire.

He tries nevertheless to assert his authority over Spoleto and Benevento in the Mezzogiorno.

He nurses friendship with Pope John VI by donating vast tracts of land in the Cottian Alps to the Holy See, returning them to their former status as a papal patrimony.

This friendship helps him little, for he has many rebellions to deal with and many Slovene raids into Venetia.

Al-Zaytuna (literally, the Mosque of Olives) is the second mosque to be built in Ifriqiya and the Maghreb region after the Mosque of Uqba in Al-Kairouan.

The exact date of building varies according to source.

Ibn Khaldun and Al-Bakri wrote that it was built in 116 Hijri (731 C.E.)

by Obeid-Allah Ibn Al-Habhab.

A second source states that the Umayyad Hisham Ibn Abdel-Malek ordered the building; however, Ahmed In Abu Diyaf and Ibn Abi Dinar attributed the order to Hasan ibn al-Nu'man who led the conquest of Tunis and Carthage.

Most scholars agree that the third possibility is the strongest by evidence as it is unlikely that the city of Tunis remained a long time without a mosque, after its conquest in 698.

Thus the closest date is 84 Hijri (703 CE), and what Al-Habhab did was in fact enlarge the mosque and improve its architecture.

Chinese Chancellor Zhang Jianzhi executes the Zhang brothers in a coup d'état and restores Emperor Zhongzong.

This marks the end of the short-lived Zhou Dynasty in China.