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Calendar overview 679
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Khan Asparuch founds the First Bulgarian Empire . | |
679 in other calendars | |
Armenian calendar | 127/128 (turn of the year July) |
Ethiopian calendar | 671/672 |
Buddhist calendar | 1222/23 (southern Buddhism); 1221/22 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 56th (57th) cycle
Year of the Earth- Rabbit 己卯 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Tiger 戊寅) |
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 41/42 (turn of the year April) |
Iranian calendar | 57/58 (turn of the year March) |
Islamic calendar | 59/60 (turn of the year 12/13 October) |
Jewish calendar | 4439/40 (September 11-12) |
Coptic calendar | 395/396 |
Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MCDXXXII (1432)
Diocletian's era : 395/396 (November turn of the year) |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 989/990 (April)
Syria: 990/991 (October) |
Spanish era | 717 |
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 735/736 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Franconian Empire
- December 23rd : Dagobert II , King of Austrasia from the Merovingian family , is probably murdered near Stenay by the hostile house man Ebroin . He leaves no offspring. His distant relative Theuderich III. , previously ruler of Neustria , can now assert himself as king in the entire Frankish Empire .
Eastern Europe
- Khan Asparuch founds a Bulgarian empire on the lower Danube ; Originally at home in southern Russia , the Bulgarians use the weakening of the Byzantine Empire by the attack of the Arabs ( siege of Constantinople ) to cross the Danube and to absorb the province of Moesia .
British Islands
- In the battle of the Trent , King Æthelred of Mercia wins over King Ecgfrith of Northumbria ; since Ælfwine of Deira perishes in the battle , the kingship of Deira ends, which from then on, united with Bernicia , is finally absorbed in Northumbria.
religion
- Georgios I becomes Patriarch of Constantinople as the successor to Theodoros I.
Born
- 678 /679: Childebert III. , Merovingian Frankish King († 711 )
Died
Date of death secured
- June 23 : Æthelthryth , Anglo-Saxon saint (* around 636 )
- December 23 : Dagobert II , King of Austrasia and saint (* 652 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Ælfwine , King of Deira
- Warin of Poitou , Frankish saint
Died around 679
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