688

This article is about the year 688. For the submarine, see Los Angeles-class submarine.

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* 6th century
* 7th century
* 8th century

Decades

* 660s
* 670s
* 680s
* 690s
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* 685
* 686
* 687
* 688
* 689
* 690
* 691

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688 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 688
DCLXXXVIII

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Ab urbe condita| 1441
Armenian calendar| 137
ԹՎ ՃԼԷ
Assyrian calendar| 5438
Balinese saka calendar| 609–610
Bengali calendar| 94–95
Berber calendar| 1638
Buddhist calendar| 1232
Burmese calendar| 50
Byzantine calendar| 6196–6197
Chinese calendar| 丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
3385 or 3178
— to —
戊子年 (Earth Rat)
3386 or 3179
Coptic calendar| 404–405
Discordian calendar| 1854
Ethiopian calendar| 680–681
Hebrew calendar| 4448–4449
Hindu calendars|
\- Vikram Samvat| 744–745
\- Shaka Samvat| 609–610
\- Kali Yuga| 3788–3789
Holocene calendar| 10688
Iranian calendar| 66–67
Islamic calendar| 68–69
Japanese calendar| Shuchō 3
(朱鳥３年)
Javanese calendar| 580–581
Julian calendar| 688
DCLXXXVIII
Korean calendar| 3021
Minguo calendar| 1224 before ROC
民前1224年
Nanakshahi calendar| −780
Seleucid era| 999/1000 AG
Thai solar calendar| 1230–1231
Tibetan calendar| མེ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Fire-Boar)
814 or 433 or −339
— to —
ས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་
(male Earth-Rat)
815 or 434 or −338
King Cunipert of the Lombards (688–700)

Year 688 (DCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 688 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

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### By place

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#### Byzantine Empire

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* Byzantine–Bulgarian War: Emperor Justinian II carries out a Balkan campaign and marches through Thrace, where he restores Byzantine rule. He establishes a theme administration, and migrates many Bulgars and Slavs to the Opsician Theme (Asia Minor).[1]
* Justinian II reestablishes Byzantine settlement on Cyprus, signing a treaty with Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik (and paying an annual tribute) for joint occupation of the island.

#### Europe

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* King Perctarit of the Lombards is assassinated by a conspiracy, after a 17-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Cunipert, who is crowned ruler of the Lombard Kingdom in Italy.
* Alahis, duke of Brescia, starts a civil war in Northern Italy. He besieges Cunipert on an island in Lake Como (Lombardy), who breaks out with Piedmontese troops.

#### Britain

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* King Caedwalla of Wessex abdicates the throne and departs on a pilgrimage to Rome, possibly because of the wounds he suffered while fighting on the Isle of Wight.[2] The power vacuum is filled by Ine, son of his second cousin, sub-king Coenred of Dorset.
* King Æthelred of Mercia establishes Mercian dominance over most of Southern England. He installs Oswine, minor member of the Kentish royal family (second cousin of king Eadric), as king of Kent. Prince Swæfheard of Essex is given West Kent.

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#### Religion

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* Eadberht is appointed bishop of Lindisfarne (Northumbria). He founds the holy shrine to his predecessor Cuthbert, a place that becomes a centre of great pilgrimage in later years.

## Births

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* Charles Martel, Frankish statesman and founder of the Carolingian dynasty (d. 741)
* Jianzhen, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 763)
* Wang Zhihuan, Chinese poet (d. 742)

## Deaths

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* May 24 - Ségéne, bishop of Armagh (b. c. 610)
* Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Muslim scholar (or 689)
* Máel Dúin mac Conaill, king of Dál Riata (Scotland)
* Perctarit, king of the Lombards
* Rictrude, Frankish abbess

## References

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1. ^ Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1991) [1983]. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 71\. ISBN 0-472-08149-7.
2. ^ Yorke, Barbara (1990), "Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England", London: Seaby, ISBN 1-85264-027-8

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