680

Time you got around to sponsoring a child

Years: 676 677 678 679 - 680 - 681 682 683 684
Decades: 650s 660s 670s - 680s - 690s 700s 710s
Centuries: 6th century - 7th century - 8th century

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Heads of states

Events

October 10 - Battle of Kerbela
November 12 - The Sixth Ecumenical Council opens in Constantinople
The Bulgars subjugate the country of current-day Bulgaria
Pippin of Herstal becomes Mayor of the Palace
Umayyad caliph Muawiyah I succeeded by Yazid I ibn Muawiyah
Erwig deposes Wamba to become king of the Visigoths.
Perctarit, king of the Lombards, makes his son Cunincpert co-ruler

Births

Boniface, missionary to Germany
Empress Gensho of Japan

Deaths

January 30 - Balthild, queen of Neustria and Burgundy
May 6 - Muawiyah I, caliph
October 10 - Husayn bin Ali, grandson of Muhammad
Wamba, king of the Visigoths

Heads of states

Japan - Temmu Emperor of Japan (672-686)