688
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This article is about the year 688. For the number (and other uses), see 688 (number). For the submarine, see Los Angeles class submarine.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 650s 660s 670s – 680s – 690s 700s 710s |
| Years: | 685 686 687 – 688 – 689 690 691 |
| 688 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 688 DCLXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1441 |
| Armenian calendar | 137 ԹՎ ՃԼԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5438 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1156–-1155 |
| Bengali calendar | 95 |
| Berber calendar | 1638 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1232 |
| Burmese calendar | 50 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6196–6197 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年十一月廿三日 (3324/3384-11-23) — to —
戊子年十二月初四日(3325/3385-12-4) |
| Coptic calendar | 404–405 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 680–681 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4448–4449 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 744–745 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 610–611 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3789–3790 |
| Holocene calendar | 10688 |
| Iranian calendar | 66–67 |
| Islamic calendar | 68–69 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3021 |
| Minguo calendar | 1224 before ROC 民前1224年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1231 |
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Year 688 (DCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 688 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
- Emperor Justinian II of the Byzantine Empire defeats the Bulgarians.
- King Caedwalla of Wessex abdicates the throne and goes on a pilgrimage to Rome.
[edit] Births
- Jianzhen, Chinese Buddhist monk who founded Tōshōdai-ji in Japan (d. 763)
- Charles Martel, Frank Leader (d. 741)
[edit] Deaths
- Perctarit, king of the Lombards
- John, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria
- `Abd Allah ibn `Abbas, Islamic Scholar and cousin of Prophet Muhammad
