691
| Years |
|---|
| Millennium |
| 1st millennium |
| Centuries |
| Decades |
| Years |
| 691 by topic |
|---|
| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 691 DCXCI |
|---|---|
| Ab urbe condita | 1444 |
| Armenian calendar | 140 ԹՎ ՃԽ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5441 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 612–613 |
| Bengali calendar | 97–98 |
| Berber calendar | 1641 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1235 |
| Burmese calendar | 53 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6199–6200 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3388 or 3181 — to — 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3389 or 3182 |
| Coptic calendar | 407–408 |
| Discordian calendar | 1857 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 683–684 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4451–4452 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 747–748 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 612–613 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3791–3792 |
| Holocene calendar | 10691 |
| Iranian calendar | 69–70 |
| Islamic calendar | 71–72 |
| Japanese calendar | Shuchō 6 (朱鳥６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 583–584 |
| Julian calendar | 691 DCXCI |
| Korean calendar | 3024 |
| Minguo calendar | 1221 before ROC 民前1221年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −777 |
| Seleucid era | 1002/1003 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1233–1234 |
| Tibetan calendar | ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Tiger) 817 or 436 or −336 — to — ལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Iron-Hare) 818 or 437 or −335 |
Year 691 (DCXCI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 691 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
By place
Europe
- King Theuderic III dies and is succeeded by his son Clovis IV, age 9, as sole ruler of the Franks. He becomes a puppet—a roi fainéant—of his uncle Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the palace of Austrasia.
Arabian Empire
- Battle of Maskin: An Umayyad army under caliph Abd al-Malik defeats the rebel forces in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). He reconquers the Arabian Peninsula, taking the holy city of Medina.
By topic
Architecture
- The Dome of the Rock is completed in Jerusalem (under the patronage of Abd al-Malik) during the Second Fitna, becoming the first work of Islamic architecture.[1]
Religion
- Wilfrid, abbot of Ripon, tries to make himself bishop of all Northumbria. King Aldfrith seizes many of his Ripon Abbey estates, and proposes to create a bishopric there. Wilfrid is banished and flees to Mercia, where King Æthelred makes him bishop of Leicester.
Births
- Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, Muslim caliph (d. 743)
- Marwan II, Muslim caliph (d. 750)
Deaths
- August 24 – Fu Youyi, official of the Tang dynasty
- November 7 – Cen Changqian, official of the Tang dynasty
- November 7 – Ge Fuyuan, official of the Tang dynasty
- Fithceallach mac Flainn, king of Uí Maine (Ireland)
- Theuderic III, king of the Franks (b. 654)
- Sun Guoting, Chinese calligrapher (b. 646)
References
- ^ Slavik 2001, p. 60.
Sources
- Slavik, Diane (2001). Cities through Time: Daily Life in Ancient and Modern Jerusalem. Geneva, Illinois: Runestone. ISBN 978-0-8225-3218-7.
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