684
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This article is about the year 684. For the number (and other uses), see 684 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 650s 660s 670s – 680s – 690s 700s 710s |
| Years: | 681 682 683 – 684 – 685 686 687 |
| 684 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 684 DCLXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1437 |
| Armenian calendar | 133 ԹՎ ՃԼԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5434 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1160–-1159 |
| Bengali calendar | 91 |
| Berber calendar | 1634 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1228 |
| Burmese calendar | 46 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6192–6193 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸未年十二月初九日 (3320/3380-12-9) — to —
甲申年十一月二十日(3321/3381-11-20) |
| Coptic calendar | 400–401 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 676–677 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4444–4445 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 740–741 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 606–607 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3785–3786 |
| Holocene calendar | 10684 |
| Iranian calendar | 62–63 |
| Islamic calendar | 64–65 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 684 DCLXXXIV |
| Korean calendar | 3017 |
| Minguo calendar | 1228 before ROC 民前1228年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1227 |
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Year 684 (DCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 684 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.
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[edit] By place
[edit] Asia
- Wu Ze Tian takes power in China.
- The Ummayad caliph Muawiya II is succeeded by Marwan I.
- September 7 – A large comet is observed in Japan (it's Japan's oldest observation record of the Halley's Comet).
- November 13 – Emperor Temmu institutes eight titles of eight classes (Yakusa-no-kabane) in Japan.
- November 26 – A great earthquake strikes Japan. The people, houses, temples, shrines and domestic animals are greatly damaged.
[edit] America
- January 10 – K'inich Kan B'alam II accedes to the rulership of the Maya polity of Palenque.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- June 26 – Pope Benedict II succeeds Pope Leo II as the 81st pope.
[edit] Births
- Gao Lishi, Chinese official and court eunuch (d. 762)
- Tachibana no Moroe, Japanese prince and minister (d. 757)
[edit] Deaths
- Luo Binwang, Chinese poet and official (b. c. 640)
- Li Xian
- November 30 – Pei Yan, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
