681

Year 681 (DCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 681 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
681 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar681
DCLXXXI
Ab urbe condita1434
Armenian calendar130
ԹՎ ՃԼ
Assyrian calendar5431
Balinese saka calendar602–603
Bengali calendar88
Berber calendar1631
Buddhist calendar1225
Burmese calendar43
Byzantine calendar6189–6190
Chinese calendar庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
3377 or 3317
     to 
辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
3378 or 3318
Coptic calendar397–398
Discordian calendar1847
Ethiopian calendar673–674
Hebrew calendar4441–4442
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat737–738
 - Shaka Samvat602–603
 - Kali Yuga3781–3782
Holocene calendar10681
Iranian calendar59–60
Islamic calendar61–62
Japanese calendarN/A
Javanese calendar573–574
Julian calendar681
DCLXXXI
Korean calendar3014
Minguo calendar1231 before ROC
民前1231年
Nanakshahi calendar−787
Seleucid era992/993 AG
Thai solar calendar1223–1224
Tibetan calendar阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
807 or 426 or −346
     to 
阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
808 or 427 or −345
Remains of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Byzantine–Bulgarian War: Emperor Constantine IV is forced to acknowledge the Bulgar state in Moesia, and to pay protection money to avoid further inroads into Byzantine Thrace.[1] Consequently, Constantine creates the Theme of Thrace of the Byzantine Empire (located in the south-eastern Balkans).[2]
  • Autumn – A military revolt breaks out in the Anatolic Theme (modern Turkey). The Byzantine army marches to Chrysopolis, and sends a delegation across the straits of the Hellespont to Constantinople, demanding that the two brothers should remain co-emperors alongside Constantine IV.[3]
  • September/November – Constantine IV has his brothers Heraclius and Tiberius mutilated, so they will be unable to rule. He orders that their images no longer appear on any coinage, and that their names be removed from official documentation.[4]
  • Constantine IV agrees to a compromise, and persuades the army to return to their barracks in Anatolia. He invites the leaders of the rebellion to come to Constantinople and consult the Senate as to how to implement the terms. On their arrival, he arrests the leaders and has them hung at Sycae.[5]

Europe

  • January 9 Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council, in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews. Laws against violence to slaves are suppressed.

Britain

  • King Æthelwalh of Sussex gives Wilfrid, exiled bishop of York, lands in Selsey to found a cathedral, named Selsey Abbey.
  • King Ecgfrith of Northumbria requests that the monks of Monkwearmouth found a new monastery at Jarrow (or 682).

Arabian Empire

Asia

  • In Japan the Asuka Kiyomihara Code is commenced under Emperor Tenmu.
  • Kutluk Khan revolts and establishes the Second Turkic Khaganate.
  • Kusakabe, second son of Tenmu, is made crown prince.
  • Sinmun becomes king of the Korean kingdom of Silla.[7]

Religion

Births

  • Fujiwara no Fusasaki, Japanese counselor (d. 737)
  • Pei Yaoqing, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 743)

Deaths

  • January 10 Pope Agatho
  • Ebroin, Mayor of the Palace of Neustria (or 680)
  • Hao Chujun, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 607)
  • Jayavarman I, king of Chenla (Cambodia)
  • Munmu, king of Silla (Korea)[7]
  • Queen Jaui, Korean queen consort
  • Queen Munmyeong, Korean queen consort

References

  1. Norwich 1990, p. 326.
  2. Kazhdan 1991, p. 501.
  3. Bury 1889, p. 308.
  4. Bellinger & Grierson 1968, p. 513.
  5. Bury 1889, p. 309.
  6. Tucker 2010, p. 205.
  7. "List of Rulers of Korea". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
  8. Canduci, p. 198.

Sources

  • Bellinger, Alfred Raymond; Grierson, Philip (1968). Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection. Dumbarton Oaks. OCLC 847177622.
  • Bury, John Bagnall (1889). A History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene. Vol. II. London: Macmillan.
  • Kazhdan, Alexander Petrovich, ed. (1991). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
  • Norwich, John Julius (1990). Byzantium: The Early Centuries. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-011447-5.
  • Tucker, Spencer C., ed. (2010). A Global Chronology of Conflict. Vol. I: Ca. 3000 BCE–1499 CE. ISBN 978-1-85109-672-5.
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