686

Year 686 (DCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 686 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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686 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar686
DCLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita1439
Armenian calendar135
ԹՎ ՃԼԵ
Assyrian calendar5436
Balinese saka calendar607–608
Bengali calendar93
Berber calendar1636
Buddhist calendar1230
Burmese calendar48
Byzantine calendar6194–6195
Chinese calendar乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
3382 or 3322
     to 
丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
3383 or 3323
Coptic calendar402–403
Discordian calendar1852
Ethiopian calendar678–679
Hebrew calendar4446–4447
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat742–743
 - Shaka Samvat607–608
 - Kali Yuga3786–3787
Holocene calendar10686
Iranian calendar64–65
Islamic calendar66–67
Japanese calendarShuchō 1
(朱鳥元年)
Javanese calendar578–579
Julian calendar686
DCLXXXVI
Korean calendar3019
Minguo calendar1226 before ROC
民前1226年
Nanakshahi calendar−782
Seleucid era997/998 AG
Thai solar calendar1228–1229
Tibetan calendar阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
812 or 431 or −341
     to 
阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
813 or 432 or −340
Pope Conon I (686–687)

Events

Europe

  • Waratton, mayor of the palace of Neustria and Burgundy, dies and is succeeded by his son-in-law Berchar. He advises King Theuderic III to break the peace treaty with Pepin of Herstal, and declares war on Austrasia.

Britain

  • King Cædwalla of Wessex establishes overlordship of Essex, and invades Kent for a second time. King Eadric is expelled, and Cædwalla's brother Mul is installed in his place. The sub-kings Berthun and Andhun are killed, and Sussex is subjugated by the West Saxons.
  • Cædwalla conquers Surrey, and tries to exterminate the Jutes of the Isle of Wight. He executes King Arwald and his two brothers. Cædwalla probably also overruns the Meonware, a Jutish people who live in the Meon Valley (Hampshire).

Arabian Empire

  • August 6 Battle of Khazir in Mosul: Alid forces of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi defeat those of the Umayyad Caliphate.
  • Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, former governor of Mesopotamia, tries to regain control of his province, as the various Muslim tribes in the region Kufa (Iraq) are engaged in an Islamic civil war.
  • Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan imprisons and tortures patriarch Mar Khnanishu I. He is the first caliph to insist on the collection of the poll tax from the Christians (approximate date).

Asia

  • October 1 Emperor Tenmu of Japan dies after a 13-year reign, and is succeeded by his widow (and niece), Empress Jitō. She will reign until 697.
  • October 25 Prince Ōtsu, son of Tenmu, is falsely accused of treason by Jito and forced to commit suicide, along with his wife Yamanobe.

Religion

Deaths

  • August 2 John V, pope of Rome (b. 635)
  • October 1 Tenmu, emperor of Japan
  • October 25 Ōtsu, Japanese prince (b. 663)
  • Andhun, king of Sussex
  • Arwald, king of the Isle of Wight
  • Audoin, bishop of Rouen (b. 609)
  • Berthun, king of Sussex
  • Eadric, king of Kent (approximate date)
  • Eanflæd, queen of Northumbria (approximate date)
  • Eata of Hexham, bishop of Lindisfarne
  • Husayn ibn Numayr, Muslim general
  • Landelin, Frankish abbot and saint
  • Waratton, mayor of the palace of Neustria
  • Wonhyo, Korean Buddhist monk (b. 617)
  • Yamanobe, Japanese princess

References

  1. Blair 1990, p. 178.
  2. Plummer, Bedae Opera Historica, Vol. 1, p. 12
  3. John 1996, pp. 34–35.

Sources

  • Blair, Peter Hunter (1990). The World of Bede (Reprint of 1970 ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-39819-0.
  • John, Eric (1996). Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-5053-7.
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