692

Year 692 (DCXCII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 692 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:
692 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar692
DCXCII
Ab urbe condita1445
Armenian calendar141
ԹՎ ՃԽԱ
Assyrian calendar5442
Balinese saka calendar613–614
Bengali calendar99
Berber calendar1642
Buddhist calendar1236
Burmese calendar54
Byzantine calendar6200–6201
Chinese calendar辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
3388 or 3328
     to 
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
3389 or 3329
Coptic calendar408–409
Discordian calendar1858
Ethiopian calendar684–685
Hebrew calendar4452–4453
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat748–749
 - Shaka Samvat613–614
 - Kali Yuga3792–3793
Holocene calendar10692
Iranian calendar70–71
Islamic calendar72–73
Japanese calendarN/A
Javanese calendar584–585
Julian calendar692
DCXCII
Korean calendar3025
Minguo calendar1220 before ROC
民前1220年
Nanakshahi calendar−776
Seleucid era1003/1004 AG
Thai solar calendar1234–1235
Tibetan calendar阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
818 or 437 or −335
     to 
阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
819 or 438 or −334
The Temple of the Cross at Palenque (Mexico)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Battle of Sebastopolis: The Byzantine army under Leontios is defeated at Sebastopolis, (modern Turkey) by Arab forces led by Muhammad ibn Marwan. During the battle, a "special military corps" (some 20,000 Slavs) under Neboulos deserts the Byzantine lines, and goes over to the Muslim Arabs.
  • Arab–Byzantine War: Muslims conquer Armenia, Iberia and Colchis, the last remaining Byzantine holdings east of the Taurus Mountains. Emperor Justinian II is forced to agree to joint Byzantine-Arab control of Cyprus, in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (approximate date).

Britain

  • King Ine of Wessex installs his kinsman, Nothelm, as ruler of Sussex. According to Bede, Sussex is subjected to Ine for a number of years.[1]

Asia

  • Empress Wu Zetian regains control of the Kingdom of Khotan in the Tarim Basin (Northwest China).

Mesoamerica

  • The Temple of the Cross at Palenque (Mexico) is constructed to commemorate the rise of King K'inich Kan B'alam II to the throne (approximate date).

Religion

  • The Quinisext Council is held in Constantinople; it lays the foundation for the Orthodox canon law. Justinian II suppresses non-Orthodox religious practices, and orders the arrest of Pope Sergius I; the militias of Rome and the Exarchate of Ravenna refuse, and take the pope's side.[2]

Births

  • Gundelina, Frankish abbess

Deaths

  • Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr, Arab sahabi (b. 624)
  • Asmā' bint Abi Bakr, companion of Muhammad
  • B'alaj Chan K'awiil, a Maya ruler of Dos Pilas (b. 625)
  • Two Ewalds, Saxon priests (approximate date)
  • Chrothildis, Frankish queen regent

References

  1. Bede 1990, book IV, chap. XV.
  2. Ostrogorsky 1956, pp. 116–122.

Sources

  • Bede (1990). Sherley-Price, Leo; Farmer, D.H. (Trans) (eds.). Ecclesiastical History of the English People. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-044565-X.
  • Ostrogorsky, George (1956). History of the Byzantine State. Oxford: Blackwell.
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