690s

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Events

• Caliph Abd al-Malik built the Dome of the Rock on the site of the First and Second Temples on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem . He introduces the dinar as currency in his empire.
• Empress Wu Zetian makes Buddhism the state religion in China .
• At the top of Venice takes 697 (according to legend) a first time elected by the nobility and clergy Dux (later Doge ) as mayor, the leadership of the city-state. The first holder of the office is Paulicius .
• 692 : the Eastern Church canon is fixed at the Trullan Synod .

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