689

Year 689 (DCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 689 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:
689 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar689
DCLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita1442
Armenian calendar138
ԹՎ ՃԼԸ
Assyrian calendar5439
Balinese saka calendar610–611
Bengali calendar96
Berber calendar1639
Buddhist calendar1233
Burmese calendar51
Byzantine calendar6197–6198
Chinese calendar戊子年 (Earth Rat)
3385 or 3325
     to 
己丑年 (Earth Ox)
3386 or 3326
Coptic calendar405–406
Discordian calendar1855
Ethiopian calendar681–682
Hebrew calendar4449–4450
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat745–746
 - Shaka Samvat610–611
 - Kali Yuga3789–3790
Holocene calendar10689
Iranian calendar67–68
Islamic calendar69–70
Japanese calendarN/A
Javanese calendar581–582
Julian calendar689
DCLXXXIX
Korean calendar3022
Minguo calendar1223 before ROC
民前1223年
Nanakshahi calendar−779
Seleucid era1000/1001 AG
Thai solar calendar1231–1232
Tibetan calendar阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
815 or 434 or −338
     to 
阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
816 or 435 or −337
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Events

Byzantine Empire

Europe

  • Battle of Coronate: The Lombards under King Cunipert defeat the army of Duke Alahis, at the River Adda (Lombardy). He executes the rebel leaders; Alahis is captured and his head and legs are cut off.[2] The southern Lombard duchies take advantage of Cunipert's distraction, and extend their territories.
  • Battle of Dorestad: The Frisians under King Radbod are defeated by the Frankish mayor of the palace, Pippin of Herstal.[3] The Rhine delta and Dorestad (modern Netherlands) become Frankish again, as well as the castles of Utrecht and Fechten (approximate date).

Asia

  • The Asuka Kiyomihara Code, a collection of governing rules commenced in 681 under Emperor Tenmu, is promulgated in Japan.

Religion

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Ostrogorsky 1956, pp. 116–122.
  2. Hodgkin, Thomas (1895). "Italy and her Invaders", volume 6. Oxford
  3. Blok 1968, pp. 32–34.

Sources

  • Blok, Dirk Peter (1968). De Franken, hun optreden in het licht der historie [The Franks: their actions in the light of history] (in Dutch). Bussum: Fibula-Van Dishoeck. OCLC 5060822.
  • Ostrogorsky, George (1956). History of the Byzantine State. Oxford: Blackwell.
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