689

Year 689 (DCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 689 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.

689 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	689 DCLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1442
Armenian calendar	138 ԹՎ ՃԼԸ
Assyrian calendar	5439
Balinese saka calendar	610–611
Bengali calendar	95–96
Berber calendar	1639
Buddhist calendar	1233
Burmese calendar	51
Byzantine calendar	6197–6198
Chinese calendar	戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3386 or 3179     — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3387 or 3180
Coptic calendar	405–406
Discordian calendar	1855
Ethiopian calendar	681–682
Hebrew calendar	4449–4450
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	745–746
- Shaka Samvat	610–611
- Kali Yuga	3789–3790
Holocene calendar	10689
Iranian calendar	67–68
Islamic calendar	69–70
Japanese calendar	Shuchō 4 (朱鳥４年)
Javanese calendar	581–582
Julian calendar	689 DCLXXXIX
Korean calendar	3022
Minguo calendar	1223 before ROC 民前1223年
Nanakshahi calendar	−779
Seleucid era	1000/1001 AG
Thai solar calendar	1231–1232
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Rat) 815 or 434 or −338     — to — ས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Earth-Ox) 816 or 435 or −337

Pershore Abbey (Worcestershire)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Byzantine–Bulgarian War: Emperor Justinian II defeats the Bulgars of Macedonia and recaptures Thessalonica, the second most important Byzantine city in Europe.^[1] He resettles the subdued Slavs in Anatolia (modern Turkey), where they are required to provide 30,000 men to the Byzantine army.

Europe

• Battle of Coronate: The Lombards under King Cunipert defeat the army of Duke Alahis, at the River Adda (Lombardy). He executes the rebel leaders; Alahis is captured and his head and legs are cut off.^[2] The southern Lombard duchies take advantage of Cunipert's distraction, and extend their territories.
• Battle of Dorestad: The Frisians under King Radbod are defeated by the Frankish mayor of the palace, Pippin of Herstal.^[3] The Rhine delta and Dorestad (modern Netherlands) become Frankish again, as well as the castles of Utrecht and Fechten (approximate date).

Asia

• The Asuka Kiyomihara Code, a collection of governing rules commenced in 681 under Emperor Tenmu, is promulgated in Japan.

By topic

Religion

• Cædwalla of Wessex arrives in Rome and is baptised by pope Sergius I, taking the name Peter. He dies 10 days later and is buried at St. Peter's Basilica.
• Prince Oswald, brother of King Osric of Hwicce, founds Pershore Abbey in Worcestershire (approximate date).

Births

• Othmar, Swiss abbot (approximate date)
• Rōben, Japanese Buddhist monk (d. 773)

Deaths

• April 20 – Cædwalla, king of Wessex
• July 8 – Kilian, Irish bishop (approximate date)
• May 10 – Kusakabe, Japanese prince (b. 662)
• September 10 – Guo Zhengyi, official of the Chinese Tang dynasty
• Alahis, king (usurper) of the Lombards
• Colman, Irish missionary (approximate date)
• Grimoald II, duke of Benevento (Italy)
• John III, Coptic Orthodox pope of Alexandria
• Liu Jingxian, official of the Tang dynasty
• Totnan, Irish Franconian apostle