688

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	650s  660s  670s  – 680s –  690s  700s  710s
Years:	685 686 687 – 688 – 689 690 691

688 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

688 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	688 DCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1441
Armenian calendar	137 ԹՎ ՃԼԷ
Assyrian calendar	5438
Bengali calendar	95
Berber calendar	1638
Buddhist calendar	1232
Burmese calendar	50
Byzantine calendar	6196–6197
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3384 or 3324     — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3385 or 3325
Coptic calendar	404–405
Discordian calendar	1854
Ethiopian calendar	680–681
Hebrew calendar	4448–4449
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	744–745
- Shaka Samvat	610–611
- Kali Yuga	3789–3790
Holocene calendar	10688
Iranian calendar	66–67
Islamic calendar	68–69
Japanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	688 DCLXXXVIII
Korean calendar	3021
Minguo calendar	1224 before ROC 民前1224年
Seleucid era	999/1000 AG
Thai solar calendar	1230–1231

King Cunipert of the Lombards (688–700)

Year 688 (DCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 688 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

• Byzantine–Bulgarian War: Emperor Justinian II carries out a Balkan campaign and marched through Thrace where he restores Byzantine rule. He establishes a theme administration, and migrates many Bulgars and Slavs to the Opsician Theme (Asia Minor).^[1]
• Justinian II reestablishes Byzantine settlement on Cyprus, signing a treaty (and paying an annual tribute) with Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik for joint occupation of the island.

Europe

• King Perctarit of the Lombards is assassinated by a conspiracy after a 17-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Cunipert who is crowned ruler of the Lombard Kingdom in Italy.
• Alahis, duke of Brescia, starts a civil war in Northern Italy. He besieges Cunipert on an island in Lake Como (Lombardy), who breaks out with Piedmontese troops.

Britain

• King Caedwalla of Wessex abdicates the throne and departs on a pilgrimage to Rome, possibly because of his wounds he has suffered while fighting on the Isle of Wight.^[2] The power vacuum is filled by Ine, son of his second cousin, sub-king Coenred of Dorset.
• King Æthelred of Mercia establishes Mercian dominance over most of Southern England. He installs Oswine, minor member of the Kentish royal family (second cousin of king Eadric), as king of Kent. Prince Swæfheard of Essex is given West Kent.

By topic

Religion

• Eadberht is appointed bishop of Lindisfarne (Northumbria). He founds the holy shrine to his predecessor Cuthbert, a place that becomes a centre of great pilgrimage in later years.

Births

• Charles Martel, Frankish statesman (approximate date)
• Jianzhen, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 763)
• Marwan II, Muslim caliph (d. 750)
• Wang Zhihuan, Chinese poet (d. 742)

Deaths

• Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Muslim scholar (or 689)
• Máel Dúin mac Conaill, king of Dál Riata (Scotland)
• Perctarit, king of the Lombards
• Rictrude, Frankish abbess
• April 9 – Waltrude, Christian patron saint

References

1. John V.A. Fine, Jr (1991). "The Early Medieval Balkans": A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. Chapter 2: "The Slavic Invasions": Justinian II's Balkan Campaign of 688/689, p. 71. ISBN 978-0-472-08149-3
2. Yorke, Barbara (1990), "Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England", London: Seaby, ISBN 1-85264-027-8