Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	650s  660s  670s  – 680s –  690s  700s  710s
Years:	677 678 679 – 680 – 681 682 683

680 by topic v • d • e

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

680 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	680 DCLXXX
Ab urbe condita	1433
Armenian calendar	129 ԹՎ ՃԻԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-1164 – -1163
Bengali calendar	87
Berber calendar	1630
Buddhist calendar	1224
Burmese calendar	42
Byzantine calendar	6188 – 6189
Chinese calendar	己卯年十一月廿四日 (3316/3376-11-24) — to — 庚辰年十二月初五日 (3317/3377-12-5)
Coptic calendar	396 – 397
Ethiopian calendar	672 – 673
Hebrew calendar	4440 – 4441
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	735 – 736
- Shaka Samvat	602 – 603
- Kali Yuga	3781 – 3782
Holocene calendar	10680
Iranian calendar	58 – 59
Islamic calendar	60 – 61
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3013
Thai solar calendar	1223
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680 was a leap year of the 7^th century.

[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Europe

• The Bulgars subjugate the country of current-day Bulgaria.
• Pippin of Herstal becomes Mayor of the Palace.
• Erwig deposes Wamba to become king of the Visigoths.
• Perctarit, king of the Lombards, makes his son Cunincpert co-ruler.

[edit] Asia

• October 10—The Battle of Karbala results in the martyrdom of Imam Hussein.
• Umayyad caliph Muawiyah I is succeeded by Yazid I ibn Muawiyah.
• In Japan, Empress-consort Uno Sarara is unwell and her husband begins the erection of the Temple of Yakushiji in Asuka, Yamato, and makes 100 persons enter religion as priests, wishing her recovering her health.

[edit] By topic

[edit] Religion

• November 12—The Sixth Ecumenical Council opens in Constantinople (ending date September 16, 681).

[edit] Births

• Boniface, missionary to Germany
• Empress Genshō of Japan
• Wu Daozi, Chinese painter (d. 740)

[edit] Deaths

• January 30—Balthild, queen of Neustria and Burgundy
• May 6 – Muawiyah I, Sunni caliph
• October 10—Husayn bin Ali (The Martyr), grandson of Muhammad (see Battle of Karbala)
• Wamba, king of the Visigoths