679

This article is about the year 679. For the number (and other uses), see 679 (number). For the record label, see sixsevenine.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	640s  650s  660s  – 670s –  680s  690s  700s
Years:	676 677 678 – 679 – 680 681 682

679 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

679 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	679 DCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1432
Armenian calendar	128 ԹՎ ՃԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	5429
Bahá'í calendar	-1165–-1164
Bengali calendar	86
Berber calendar	1629
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1223
Burmese calendar	41
Byzantine calendar	6187–6188
Chinese calendar	戊寅年閏十一月十四日 (3315/3375-intercalary 11-14) — to — 己卯年十一月廿三日 (3316/3376-11-23)
Coptic calendar	395–396
Ethiopian calendar	671–672
Hebrew calendar	4439–4440
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	735–736
- Shaka Samvat	601–602
- Kali Yuga	3780–3781
Holocene calendar	10679
Iranian calendar	57–58
Islamic calendar	59–60
Japanese calendar
Julian calendar	679    DCLXXIX
Korean calendar	3012
Minguo calendar	1233 before ROC 民前1233年
Thai solar calendar	1222

Year 679 (DCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 679 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By topic

Religion

• Adamnan becomes abbot of the monastery on Iona.

Deaths

• Æthelthryth, wife of King Ecgfrith of Northumbria, and later saint
• Cenn Fáelad mac Aillila, Irish dynast and scholar
• Dai Zhide
• Xu Yushi