680
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This article is about the year 680. For the number (and other uses), see 680 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 650s 660s 670s – 680s – 690s 700s 710s |
| Years: | 677 678 679 – 680 – 681 682 683 |
| 680 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 680 DCLXXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1433 |
| Armenian calendar | 129 ԹՎ ՃԻԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5430 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1164–-1163 |
| Bengali calendar | 87 |
| Berber calendar | 1630 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1224 |
| Burmese calendar | 42 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6188–6189 |
| Chinese calendar | 己卯年十一月廿四日 (3316/3376-11-24) — to —
庚辰年十二月初五日(3317/3377-12-5) |
| Coptic calendar | 396–397 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 672–673 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4440–4441 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 736–737 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 602–603 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3781–3782 |
| Holocene calendar | 10680 |
| Iranian calendar | 58–59 |
| Islamic calendar | 60–61 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 680 DCLXXX |
| Korean calendar | 3013 |
| Minguo calendar | 1232 before ROC 民前1232年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1223 |
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Year 680 (DCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 680 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.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- The Bulgars subjugate the country of current-day Bulgaria.
- Pippin of Herstal becomes Mayor of the Palace.
- Erwig deposes Wamba to become king of the Visigoths.
- Perctarit, king of the Lombards, makes his son Cunincpert co-ruler.
[edit] Asia
- October 10 – The Battle of Karbala results in the martyrdom of Imam Hussein.
- Umayyad caliph Muawiyah I is succeeded by Yazid I ibn Muawiyah.
- In Japan, Empress-consort Uno Sarara is unwell and her husband begins the erection of the Temple of Yakushiji in Asuka, Yamato, and makes 100 persons enter religion as priests, wishing her recovering her health.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- November 12 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council opens in Constantinople and ends September 16, 681.
[edit] Births
- Boniface, missionary to Germany
- Empress Genshō of Japan
- Wu Daozi, Chinese painter (d. 740)
[edit] Deaths
- January 30 – Balthild, queen of Neustria and Burgundy
- May 6 – Muawiyah I, Sunni caliph
- October 10 – Husayn bin Ali (The Martyr), grandson of Muhammad (see Battle of Karbala)
- Wamba, king of the Visigoths
