679

Year 679 (DCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 679 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century 7th century 8th century
Decades:	650s 660s 670s 680s 690s
Years:	676 677 678 679 680 681 682

679 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	679 DCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1432
Armenian calendar	128 ԹՎ ՃԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	5429
Balinese saka calendar	600–601
Bengali calendar	86
Berber calendar	1629
Buddhist calendar	1223
Burmese calendar	41
Byzantine calendar	6187–6188
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3375 or 3315     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3376 or 3316
Coptic calendar	395–396
Discordian calendar	1845
Ethiopian calendar	671–672
Hebrew calendar	4439–4440
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	735–736
- Shaka Samvat	600–601
- Kali Yuga	3779–3780
Holocene calendar	10679
Iranian calendar	57–58
Islamic calendar	59–60
Japanese calendar	N/A
Javanese calendar	571–572
Julian calendar	679 DCLXXIX
Korean calendar	3012
Minguo calendar	1233 before ROC 民前1233年
Nanakshahi calendar	−789
Seleucid era	990/991 AG
Thai solar calendar	1221–1222
Tibetan calendar	阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 805 or 424 or −348     — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 806 or 425 or −347

Martyrdom of bishop Leodegar (c. 1200)

Events

Byzantine Empire

• Emperor Constantine IV signs a peace treaty, of a nominal 30-year duration, with Caliph Muawiyah I of the Umayyad Caliphate. Constantine pays an annual tribute of 3,000 (nomismata) pounds of gold, 50 horses and 50 slaves. The Arab garrisons are withdrawn from their bases on the Byzantine coastlands, including Crete & Cyzicus.[1]

Europe

• December 23 – King Dagobert II is murdered in a hunting accident, near Stenay-sur-Meuse (Ardennes), probably on orders from Pepin of Herstal, the mayor of the palace of Austrasia.[2] He is succeeded by Theuderic III, who becomes sole ruler of the Frankish Kingdom.

Britain

• King Æthelred of Mercia marries Princess Osthryth, sister of King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (approximate date).

Americas

• Nuun Ujol Chaak, an ajaw of the Maya city of Tikal, is by this year deceased, after his final defeat at the hands of B'alaj Chan K'awiil, during the Second Tikal-Calakmul War.

Religion

• Adomnán, clerical lawyer, becomes abbot of the monastery of Iona Abbey, located on the island of Iona (modern Scotland).
• October 2 – Leodegar, bishop of Autun, is tortured and executed by Neustrian nobles at Fécamp (Normandy)

Births

• Sima Zhen, Chinese historian (d. 732)
• Zachary, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 752)

Deaths

• June 23 – Æthelthryth, queen of Northumbria
• October 2, Leodegar, bishop of Autun
• December 23 – Dagobert II, king of Austrasia
• Ælfwine, king of Deira (approximate date)
• Cenn Fáelad mac Ailella, Irish scholar
• Dai Zhide, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
• Sigebert IV, Frankish prince (approximate date)
• Xu Yushi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty

References

1. Haldon (1990), p. 64; Kaegi (2008), pp. 381–382; Lilie (1976), pp. 81–82 and Treadgold (1997), p. 327
2. E. Vagandard (1902), "Revue des Questions Historiques", pp. 63–67