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

Events

690

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Entertainment
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691

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Arabian Empire
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Architecture
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692

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Byzantine Empire
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Britain
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Mesoamerica
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Religion
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693

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Britain

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Religion
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694

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Byzantine Empire
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Britain
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695

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Byzantine Empire
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Britain
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696

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697

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Arabian Empire
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Asia
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  • 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.
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698

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Byzantine Empire
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Arabian Empire
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  • 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).
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699

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Umayyad Caliphate
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Asia
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Significant people

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Births

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Deaths

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

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699

References

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  1. ^ "Memory ..." 2006.
  2. ^ Slavik 2001, p. 60.
  3. ^ Bede 1990, book IV, chap. XV.
  4. ^ a b 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. ^ a b Venning 2006, p. 188.
  12. ^ a b Treadgold 1997, p. 339.
  13. ^ Grapard 2016, p. 28.

Sources

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  • Bede (1990). Farmer, D.H. (ed.). Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Translated by Leo Sherley-Price. 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.