692

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* 689
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* 691
* 692
* 693
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692 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 692
DCXCII

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Ab urbe condita| 1445
Armenian calendar| 141
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Assyrian calendar| 5442
Balinese saka calendar| 613–614
Bengali calendar| 98–99
Berber calendar| 1642
Buddhist calendar| 1236
Burmese calendar| 54
Byzantine calendar| 6200–6201
Chinese calendar| 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
3389 or 3182
— to —
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
3390 or 3183
Coptic calendar| 408–409
Discordian calendar| 1858
Ethiopian calendar| 684–685
Hebrew calendar| 4452–4453
Hindu calendars|
\- Vikram Samvat| 748–749
\- Shaka Samvat| 613–614
\- Kali Yuga| 3792–3793
Holocene calendar| 10692
Iranian calendar| 70–71
Islamic calendar| 72–73
Japanese calendar| Shuchō 7
(朱鳥７年)
Javanese calendar| 584–585
Julian calendar| 692
DCXCII
Korean calendar| 3025
Minguo calendar| 1220 before ROC
民前1220年
Nanakshahi calendar| −776
Seleucid era| 1003/1004 AG
Thai solar calendar| 1234–1235
Tibetan calendar| ལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Iron-Hare)
818 or 437 or −335
— to —
ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Water-Dragon)
819 or 438 or −334
The Temple of the Cross at Palenque (Mexico)

Year 692 (DCXCII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 692 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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#### Byzantine Empire

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* Battle of Sebastopolis: The Byzantine army under Leontius is defeated at Sebastopolis, (modern Turkey) by Arab forces led by Muhammad ibn Marwan. During the battle, a "special military corps" (some 20,000 Slavs) under Neboulos deserts the Byzantine lines, and goes over to the Muslim Arabs.
* Arab–Byzantine War: Muslims conquer Armenia, Iberia and Colchis, the last remaining Byzantine holdings east of the Taurus Mountains. Emperor Justinian II is forced to agree to joint Byzantine-Arab control of Cyprus, in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (approximate date).

#### Britain

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* King Ine of Wessex installs his kinsman, Nothelm, as ruler of Sussex. According to Bede, Sussex is subjected to Ine for a number of years.[1]

#### Asia

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* Empress Wu Zetian regains control of the Kingdom of Khotan in the Tarim Basin (Northwest China).

#### Mesoamerica

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* The Temple of the Cross at Palenque (Mexico) is constructed to commemorate the rise of King Kʼinich Kan Bahlam II to the throne (approximate date).

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#### Religion

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* The Quinisext Council is held in Constantinople; it lays the foundation for the Orthodox canon law. Justinian II suppresses non-Orthodox religious practices, and orders the arrest of Pope Sergius I; the militias of Rome and the Exarchate of Ravenna refuse, and take the pope's side.[2]

## Births

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* Gundelina, Frankish abbess

## Deaths

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* Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, Arab sahabi (b. 624)
* Asmā' bint Abi Bakr, companion of Muhammad
* Bʼalaj Chan Kʼawiil, a Maya ruler of Dos Pilas (b. 625)
* Two Ewalds, Saxon priests (approximate date)
* Chrothildis, Frankish queen regent

## References

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1. ^ Bede 1990, book IV, chap. XV.
2. ^ Ostrogorsky 1956, pp. 116–122.

### 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.
* Ostrogorsky, George (1956). History of the Byzantine State. Oxford: Blackwell.

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