691

This article is about the year 691. For the number (and other uses), see 691 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	660s  670s  680s  – 690s –  700s  710s  720s
Years:	688 689 690 – 691 – 692 693 694

691 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

691 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	691 DCXCI
Ab urbe condita	1444
Armenian calendar	140 ԹՎ ՃԽ
Assyrian calendar	5441
Bahá'í calendar	-1153–-1152
Bengali calendar	98
Berber calendar	1641
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1235
Burmese calendar	53
Byzantine calendar	6199–6200
Chinese calendar	庚寅年正月廿七日 (3327/3387-1-27) — to — 辛卯年二月初七日 (3328/3388-2-7)
Coptic calendar	407–408
Ethiopian calendar	683–684
Hebrew calendar	4451–4452
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	747–748
- Shaka Samvat	613–614
- Kali Yuga	3792–3793
Holocene calendar	10691
Iranian calendar	69–70
Islamic calendar	71–72
Japanese calendar
Julian calendar	691    DCXCI
Korean calendar	3024
Minguo calendar	1221 before ROC 民前1221年
Thai solar calendar	1234

Year 691 (DCXCI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 691 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 place

Europe

• Theuderic III is succeeded by Clovis IV as king of Austrasia.
• Wilfrid, Bishop of Northumbria, is expelled to Mercia.

By topic

Religion

• The building of the Dome of the Rock is completed in Jerusalem.

Deaths

• Cen Changqian, Chinese chancellor serving Wu Zetian for a brief time
• September 28 – Fu Youyi, Chancellor serving Wu Zetian for a brief time (suicide)
• Ge Fuyuan, Chinese chancellor serving Wu Zetian for a brief time (executed)
• Sun Guoting