688

This article is about the year 688. For the submarine, see Los Angeles-class submarine.

Calendar year

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

Gregorian calendar 688
DCLXXXVIII

Ab urbe condita 1441

Armenian calendar 137
ԹՎ ՃԼԷ

Assyrian calendar 5438

Balinese saka calendar 609–610

Bengali calendar 94–95

Berber calendar 1638

Buddhist calendar 1232

Burmese calendar 50

Byzantine calendar 6196–6197

Chinese calendar 丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
3385 or 3178
— to —
戊子年 (Earth Rat)
3386 or 3179

Coptic calendar 404–405

Discordian calendar 1854

Ethiopian calendar 680–681

Hebrew calendar 4448–4449

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 744–745

- Shaka Samvat 609–610

- Kali Yuga 3788–3789

Holocene calendar 10688

Iranian calendar 66–67

Islamic calendar 68–69

Japanese calendar Shuchō 3
(朱鳥3年)

Javanese calendar 580–581

Julian calendar 688
DCLXXXVIII

Korean calendar 3021

Minguo calendar 1224 before ROC
民前1224年

Nanakshahi calendar −780

Seleucid era 999/1000 AG

Thai solar calendar 1230–1231

Tibetan calendar 阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
814 or 433 or −339
— to —
阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
815 or 434 or −338

King Cunipert of the Lombards (688–700)

Year 688 (DCLXXXVIII ) was a leap year starting on Wednesday 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

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By place

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Byzantine Empire

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Byzantine–Bulgarian War: Emperor Justinian II carries out a Balkan campaign and marches 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 with Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik (and paying an annual tribute) for joint occupation of the island.

Europe

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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

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King Caedwalla of Wessex abdicates the throne and departs on a pilgrimage to Rome, possibly because of the wounds he 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.

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Religion

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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.