669

Year 669 (DCLXIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 669 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:
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669 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar669
DCLXIX
Ab urbe condita1422
Armenian calendar118
ԹՎ ՃԺԸ
Assyrian calendar5419
Balinese saka calendar590–591
Bengali calendar76
Berber calendar1619
Buddhist calendar1213
Burmese calendar31
Byzantine calendar6177–6178
Chinese calendar戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
3365 or 3305
     to 
己巳年 (Earth Snake)
3366 or 3306
Coptic calendar385–386
Discordian calendar1835
Ethiopian calendar661–662
Hebrew calendar4429–4430
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat725–726
 - Shaka Samvat590–591
 - Kali Yuga3769–3770
Holocene calendar10669
Iranian calendar47–48
Islamic calendar48–49
Japanese calendarN/A
Javanese calendar560–561
Julian calendar669
DCLXIX
Korean calendar3002
Minguo calendar1243 before ROC
民前1243年
Nanakshahi calendar−799
Seleucid era980/981 AG
Thai solar calendar1211–1212
Tibetan calendar阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
795 or 414 or −358
     to 
阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
796 or 415 or −357
Fujiwara no Kamatari (614–669)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Spring Arab forces that have taken Chalcedon, on the Asian shore of the Bosporus, threaten the Byzantine capital Constantinople. The Muslim-Arabs are decimated by famine and disease. Yazid, Arab commander, retreats to the island of Cyzicus (modern Turkey).

Britain

Asia

  • November 14 Kamatari, Japanese statesman and reformer, receives the surname Fujiwara from Emperor Tenji as a reward for his services, but dies in Yamato prefecture (modern-day Sakurai City).

Births

  • Gregory II, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 731)
  • Justinian II, Byzantine emperor (approximate date)
  • Qutayba ibn Muslim, Arab general (approximate date)

Deaths

References

  1. Ponsonby-Fane, Richard (1962). "Sovereign and Subject", pp. 216–220
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