676

Year 676 (DCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 676 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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676 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar676
DCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita1429
Armenian calendar125
ԹՎ ՃԻԵ
Assyrian calendar5426
Balinese saka calendar597–598
Bengali calendar83
Berber calendar1626
Buddhist calendar1220
Burmese calendar38
Byzantine calendar6184–6185
Chinese calendar乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
3372 or 3312
     to 
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
3373 or 3313
Coptic calendar392–393
Discordian calendar1842
Ethiopian calendar668–669
Hebrew calendar4436–4437
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat732–733
 - Shaka Samvat597–598
 - Kali Yuga3776–3777
Holocene calendar10676
Iranian calendar54–55
Islamic calendar56–57
Japanese calendarN/A
Javanese calendar568–569
Julian calendar676
DCLXXVI
Korean calendar3009
Minguo calendar1236 before ROC
民前1236年
Nanakshahi calendar−792
Seleucid era987/988 AG
Thai solar calendar1218–1219
Tibetan calendar阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
802 or 421 or −351
     to 
阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
803 or 422 or −350
King Dagobert II of Austrasia (c. 650–679)

Events

Byzantine Empire

Europe

  • Dagobert II, son of the late king Sigibert III, becomes (partly with the help of Bishop Wilfrid) the new ruler of Austrasia, after his predecessor Clovis III is murdered.

Britain

  • King Æthelred of Mercia invades Kent, in an attempt to enforce overlordship and diminish Kentish influence in Surrey and London. His armies destroy the Diocese of Rochester[2] (seat of the bishops in West Kent), and ravage the surrounding countryside.
  • King Æscwine of Wessex dies after a 2-year reign, and is succeeded by Centwine, son of the late king Cynegils. He reasserts the power of his Anglo-Saxon kingdom over the Welsh.

Asia

  • Emperor Tenmu of Japan promulgates a decree about taxes from fiefs, and the employment of persons for the service from the outer provinces. Men of distinguished ability are allowed to enter the service, even though they are of the common people, regardless of their ranks.
  • The broad-based peninsular effort under Silla's leadership, to prevent Chinese domination of Korea, succeeds in forcing Chinese troops to withdraw into Manchuria, in northeast China.

Religion

  • Aldhelm, Anglo-Saxon scholar-poet, founds Malmesbury Abbey on the site of the hermitage of his old tutor Máel Dub.
  • Æthelred of Mercia founds the monastery at Breedon on the Hill on the site of The Bulwarks, an Iron Age hill fort.
  • June 17 Pope Adeodatus II dies at Rome after a reign of 4 years. He is succeeded by Donus as the 78th pope.
  • Cuthbert of Lindisfarne retires to a hermitage near Holburn, at a place now known as St. Cuthbert's Cave.

Births

Deaths

  • June 17 Pope Adeodatus II
  • Æscwine, king of Wessex
  • Clovis III, king of Austrasia
  • Le Yanwei, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
  • Mangsong Mangtsen, emperor of Tibet
  • Wang Bo, Chinese poet

References

  1. Treadgold 1997, p. 326.
  2. Bede 1991, p. 223, book IV, chapter XII.

Sources

  • Bede (1991). D. H. Farmer (ed.). Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Translated by Leo Sherley-Price. Revised by R. E. Latham. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-044565-X.
  • Treadgold, Warren (1997). A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2630-2.
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