669
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 630s 640s 650s – 660s – 670s 680s 690s |
| Years: | 666 667 668 – 669 – 670 671 672 |
| 669 by topic | |
| Politics | |
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| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 669 DCLXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1422 |
| Armenian calendar | 118 ԹՎ ՃԺԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5419 |
| Bengali calendar | 76 |
| Berber calendar | 1619 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1213 |
| Burmese calendar | 31 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6177–6178 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3365 or 3305 — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3366 or 3306 |
| Coptic calendar | 385–386 |
| Discordian calendar | 1835 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 661–662 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4429–4430 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 725–726 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 591–592 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3770–3771 |
| Holocene calendar | 10669 |
| Iranian calendar | 47–48 |
| Islamic calendar | 48–49 |
| Japanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 669 DCLXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3002 |
| Minguo calendar | 1243 before ROC 民前1243年 |
| Seleucid era | 980/981 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1211–1212 |
Fujiwara no Kamatari (614–669)
Year 669 (DCLXIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 669 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
Byzantine Empire
- Spring – Arab forces that have taken Chalcedon, on the Asian shore of the Bosporus, threaten the Byzantine capital Constantinople. The Muslim-Arabs are decimated by famine and disease. Yazid, Arab commander, retreats to the island of Cyzicus (modern Turkey).
Britain
- King Ecgberht of Kent loses the overlordship of Surrey to king Wulfhere of Mercia. He grants the old Saxon Shore Fort at Reculver (south-east England) to a priest named Bassa in order to establish a monastery dedicated to St. Mary (approximate date).
Asia
- November 14 – Kamatari, Japanese statesman and reformer, receives the surname Fujiwara from emperor Tenji as a reward for his services but dies in Yamato prefecture (modern-day Sakurai City).
Births
- Justinian II, Byzantine emperor (approximate date)
- Gregory II, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 731)
- Qutayba ibn Muslim, Arab general (approximate date)
Deaths
- November 14 – Fujiwara no Kamatari, founder of the Fujiwara clan[1] (b. 614)
- Jaruman, bishop of Mercia (approximate date)
- December 31 – Li Shiji, general and chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 594)
- Mezezius, Byzantine usurper (approximate date)
References
- ↑ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard (1962). "Sovereign and Subject", pp. 216–220
