692

692 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	692 ; DCXCII
Ab urbe condita	1445
Armenian calendar	141 ; ?? ???
Assyrian calendar	5442
Balinese saka calendar	613?614
Bengali calendar	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	Shuch? 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	?金?年 ; (female Iron- Rabbit ) ; 818 or 437 or ?335 ; ? to ? ; ?水?年 ; (male Water- Dragon ) ; 819 or 438 or ?334

Millennium :	1st millennium
Centuries :	6th century ; 7th century ; 8th century ;
Decades :	670s ; 680s ; 690s ; 700s ; 710s ;
Years :	689 ; 690 ; 691 ; 692 ; 693 ; 694 ; 695 ;

Year 692 ( DCXCII ) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) 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 [ edit ]

By place [ edit ]

Byzantine Empire [ edit ]

Battle of Sebastopolis : The Byzantine army under Leontios 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 [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

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

Mesoamerica [ edit ]

The Temple of the Cross at Palenque ( Mexico ) is constructed to commemorate the rise of King K'inich Kan B'alam II to the throne (approximate date).

By topic [ edit ]

Religion [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

Gundelina , Frankish abbess

Deaths [ edit ]

Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr , Arab sahabi (b. 624 )
Asm?' bint Abi Bakr , companion of Muhammad
B'alaj Chan K'awiil , a Maya ruler of Dos Pilas (b. 625 )
Two Ewalds , Saxon priests (approximate date)
Chrothildis , Frankish queen regent

References [ edit ]

^ Bede 1990 , book IV, chap. XV.
^ Ostrogorsky 1956 , pp. 116?122.

Sources [ edit ]

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.

[FOOTNOTEBede1990book&nbsp;IV,_chap.&nbsp;XV-1] Bede 1990 , book IV, chap. XV.

[FOOTNOTEOstrogorsky1956116–122-2] Ostrogorsky 1956 , pp. 116?122.

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