AD 679
| Years |
|---|
| Millennium |
| 1st millennium |
| Centuries |
| Decades |
| Years |
| AD 679 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 679 DCLXXIX |
|---|---|
| Ab urbe condita | 1432 |
| Armenian calendar | 128 ԹՎ ՃԻԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5429 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 600–601 |
| Bengali calendar | 85–86 |
| Berber calendar | 1629 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1223 |
| Burmese calendar | 41 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6187–6188 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3376 or 3169 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3377 or 3170 |
| Coptic calendar | 395–396 |
| Discordian calendar | 1845 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 671–672 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4439–4440 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 735–736 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 600–601 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3779–3780 |
| Holocene calendar | 10679 |
| Iranian calendar | 57–58 |
| Islamic calendar | 59–60 |
| Japanese calendar | Hakuchi 30 (白雉３０年) |
| Javanese calendar | 571–572 |
| Julian calendar | 679 DCLXXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3012 |
| Minguo calendar | 1233 before ROC 民前1233年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −789 |
| Seleucid era | 990/991 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1221–1222 |
| Tibetan calendar | ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 805 or 424 or −348 — to — ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Earth-Hare) 806 or 425 or −347 |
Year 679 (DCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 679 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.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Emperor Constantine IV signs a peace treaty, of a nominal 30-year duration, with Caliph Mu'awiya I of the Umayyad Caliphate. Constantine pays an annual tribute of 3,000 (nomismata) pounds of gold, 50 horses and 50 slaves. The Arab garrisons are withdrawn from their bases on the Byzantine coastlands, including Crete & Cyzicus.[1][2][3][4]
Europe
- December 23 – King Dagobert II is murdered in a hunting accident, near Stenay-sur-Meuse (Ardennes), probably on orders from Pepin of Herstal, the mayor of the palace of Austrasia.[5] He is succeeded by Theuderic III, who becomes sole ruler of the Frankish Kingdom.
Britain
- King Æthelred of Mercia marries Princess Osthryth, sister of King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (approximate date).
Americas
- Nuun Ujol Chaak, an ajaw of the Maya city of Tikal, is by this year deceased, after his final defeat at the hands of Bʼalaj Chan Kʼawiil, during the Second Tikal–Calakmul War.
By topic
Religion
- Adomnán, clerical lawyer, becomes abbot of the monastery of Iona Abbey, located on the island of Iona (modern Scotland).
- October 2 – Leodegar, bishop of Autun, is tortured and executed by Neustrian nobles at Fécamp (Normandy).
Births
- Sima Zhen, Chinese historian (d. 732)
- Zachary, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 752)
Deaths
- June 23 – Æthelthryth, queen of Northumbria
- October 2, Leodegar, bishop of Autun
- December 23 – Dagobert II, king of Austrasia
- Ælfwine, king of Deira (approximate date)
- Amandus, bishop and saint (b. ca. 584)
- Cenn Fáelad mac Ailella, Irish scholar
- Dai Zhide, chancellor of the Tang dynasty
- Sigebert IV, Frankish prince (approximate date)
- Xu Yushi, chancellor of the Tang dynasty
References
- ^ Haldon 1990, p. 64.
- ^ Kaegi (2008), pp. 381–382[full citation needed]
- ^ Lilie 1976, pp. 81–82.
- ^ Treadgold 1997, p. 327.
- ^ E. Vagandard (1902), "Revue des Questions Historiques", pp. 63–67
Sources
- Haldon, John F. (1990). Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformation of a Culture (revised ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-31917-1.
- Lilie, Ralph-Johannes (1976). Die byzantinische Reaktion auf die Ausbreitung der Araber. Studien zur Strukturwandlung des byzantinischen Staates im 7. und 8. Jhd [Byzantine Reaction to the Expansion of the Arabs. Studies on the Structural Change of the Byzantine State in the 7th and 8th Cent.] (in German). Munich: Institut für Byzantinistik und Neugriechische Philologie der Universität München. OCLC 797598069.
- Treadgold, Warren (1997). A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2630-2.
External links
Media related to 679 at Wikimedia Commons
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