690
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This article is about the year 690. For the number (and other uses), see 690 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 660s 670s 680s – 690s – 700s 710s 720s |
| Years: | 687 688 689 – 690 – 691 692 693 |
| 690 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 690 DCXC |
| Ab urbe condita | 1443 |
| Armenian calendar | 139 ԹՎ ՃԼԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5440 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1154–-1153 |
| Bengali calendar | 97 |
| Berber calendar | 1640 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1234 |
| Burmese calendar | 52 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6198–6199 |
| Chinese calendar | 己丑年正月十五日 (3326/3386-1-15) — to —
庚寅年正月廿六日(3327/3387-1-26) |
| Coptic calendar | 406–407 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 682–683 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4450–4451 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 746–747 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 612–613 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3791–3792 |
| Holocene calendar | 10690 |
| Iranian calendar | 68–69 |
| Islamic calendar | 70–71 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3023 |
| Minguo calendar | 1222 before ROC 民前1222年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1233 |
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Year 690 (DCXC) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 690 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] Asia
- Beginning of Wu Zetian's Zhou Dynasty in China. She was China's first and only female emperor, ruling on her own accord.
- The approximate date of the earliest known blindfold chess, played by Sa'id bin Jubair[1]
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[edit] Religion
- Building of the Dome of the Rock
[edit] Births
- Rotrude of Treves, Duchess of the Franks (d. 724)
- Pelayo, first king of Asturias (d. 737)
- Rhodri Molwynog ap Idwal, king of Gwynedd in Wales
