The 690s decade ran from January 1, 690, to December 31, 699.

Events

690

By place

Britain
Asia

By topic

Entertainment
Religion

691

By place

Europe
Arabian Empire

By topic

Architecture
Religion

692

By place

Byzantine Empire
Britain
Asia
Mesoamerica

By topic

Religion

693

By place

Europe

Britain

Central America

By topic

Religion

694

By place

Byzantine Empire
Europe
Britain
Asia

695

By place

Byzantine Empire
Britain
Central America
Europe

By topic

Religion

696

By topic

Religion

697

By place

Europe
Britain
Arabian Empire
Asia
  • Empress Jitō abdicates the throne in favor of the 14-year-old Monmu (grandson of late emperor Tenmu). During her 11-year reign she has established the foundations of law in Japan.
Mesoamerica

By topic

Religion

698

By place

Byzantine Empire
Europe
Britain
Arabian Empire
  • Berber forces led by Queen Kahina ("The Diviner") are crushed by Arab invaders at Aures (Algeria). She has rallied the Berbers since the collapse of Byzantine power (see 647).
Asia
Central America

By topic

Religion

699

By place

Umayyad Caliphate
Asia

Significant people

Births

690

691

692

693

694

695

697

698

699

Deaths

690

691

692

693

manuscript image of a Saxon saint
St Erkenwald, Saxon Prince, bishop and saint known as the "Light of London" died in this year

694

695

696

697

698

699

References

  1. "Memory ..." 2006.
  2. Slavik 2001, p. 60.
  3. Bede 1990, book IV, chap. XV.
  4. 1 2 Ostrogorsky 1956, pp. 116–122.
  5. Kirby 1992, p. 122.
  6. Fryde et al. 1996, p. 219.
  7. Ostrogorsky 1956, pp. 124–126.
  8. Whitelock 1968, p. 357.
  9. Venning 2006, p. 187.
  10. Treadgold 1997, pp. 337–339.
  11. 1 2 Venning 2006, p. 188.
  12. 1 2 Treadgold 1997, p. 339.
  13. Grapard 2016, p. 28.

Sources

  • Bede (1990). Sherley-Price, Leo; Farmer, D.H. (Trans) (eds.). Ecclesiastical History of the English People. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-044565-X.
  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (third revised ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  • Grapard, Allan G. (2016). Mountain Mandalas: Shugendo in Kyushu. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-4742-4901-0.
  • Kirby, D. P. (1992). The Earliest English Kings. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-09086-5.
  • "Memory and Mental Calculation World Records". Rekord Klub Saxonia. Archived from the original on 2 April 2006.
  • Ostrogorsky, George (1956). History of the Byzantine State. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Slavik, Diane (2001). Cities through Time: Daily Life in Ancient and Modern Jerusalem. Geneva, Illinois: Runestone. ISBN 978-0-8225-3218-7.
  • Treadgold, Warren (1997). A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2630-2.
  • Venning, Timothy, ed. (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.
  • Whitelock, Dorothy (1968). English Historical Documents, vol. I, c.500–1042. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode.
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