686
686
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: |
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| Decades: |
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| Years: |
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| Gregorian calendar | 686 DCLXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1439 |
| Armenian calendar | 135 ԹՎ ՃԼԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5436 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 607–608 |
| Bengali calendar | 93 |
| Berber calendar | 1636 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1230 |
| Burmese calendar | 48 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6194–6195 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3382 or 3322 — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3383 or 3323 |
| Coptic calendar | 402–403 |
| Discordian calendar | 1852 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 678–679 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4446–4447 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 742–743 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 607–608 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3786–3787 |
| Holocene calendar | 10686 |
| Iranian calendar | 64–65 |
| Islamic calendar | 66–67 |
| Japanese calendar | Shuchō 1 (朱鳥元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 578–579 |
| Julian calendar | 686 DCLXXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3019 |
| Minguo calendar | 1226 before ROC 民前1226年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −782 |
| Seleucid era | 997/998 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1228–1229 |
| 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 |
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.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: |
|
| Decades: |
|
| Years: |
|
| Gregorian calendar | 686 DCLXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1439 |
| Armenian calendar | 135 ԹՎ ՃԼԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5436 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 607–608 |
| Bengali calendar | 93 |
| Berber calendar | 1636 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1230 |
| Burmese calendar | 48 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6194–6195 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3382 or 3322 — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3383 or 3323 |
| Coptic calendar | 402–403 |
| Discordian calendar | 1852 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 678–679 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4446–4447 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 742–743 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 607–608 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3786–3787 |
| Holocene calendar | 10686 |
| Iranian calendar | 64–65 |
| Islamic calendar | 66–67 |
| Japanese calendar | Shuchō 1 (朱鳥元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 578–579 |
| Julian calendar | 686 DCLXXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3019 |
| Minguo calendar | 1226 before ROC 民前1226年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −782 |
| Seleucid era | 997/998 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1228–1229 |
| 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 |
Events
By place
Europe
Waratton, mayor of the palace of Neustria and Burgundy, dies and is succeeded by his son-in-law Berthar. 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 exterminates 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
By topic
Religion
August 2 – Pope John V dies at Rome after a 12-month reign, in which he has made handsome donations to the poor. He is succeeded by Conon I as the 83rd pope of the Catholic Church.
Plague kills almost all the Benedictine monks in the monastery of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey (Northumbria), aside from the abbot Ceolfrith and one small boy – future scholar Bede.[1][2]
Wilfrid, bishop of York, becomes an advisor of Cædwalla, and is sent to the Isle of Wight to evangelise the inhabitants.[3]
Births
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