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Appearance
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Leaders |
Categories |
Gregorian calendar | 684 DCLXXXIV |
Ab urbe condita | 1437 |
Armenian calendar | 133 ԹՎ ՃԼԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 5434 |
Balinese saka calendar | 605–606 |
Bengali calendar | 91 |
Berber calendar | 1634 |
Buddhist calendar | 1228 |
Burmese calendar | 46 |
Byzantine calendar | 6192–6193 |
Chinese calendar | 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3381 or 3174 — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3382 or 3175 |
Coptic calendar | 400–401 |
Discordian calendar | 1850 |
Ethiopian calendar | 676–677 |
Hebrew calendar | 4444–4445 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 740–741 |
- Shaka Samvat | 605–606 |
- Kali Yuga | 3784–3785 |
Holocene calendar | 10684 |
Iranian calendar | 62–63 |
Islamic calendar | 64–65 |
Japanese calendar | Hakuchi 35 (白雉35年) |
Javanese calendar | 576–577 |
Julian calendar | 684 DCLXXXIV |
Korean calendar | 3017 |
Minguo calendar | 1228 before ROC 民前1228年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −784 |
Seleucid era | 995/996 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1226–1227 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 810 or 429 or −343 — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 811 or 430 or −342 |
Year 684 (DCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 684 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
Asia
- Wu Ze Tian takes power in China.
- The Ummayad caliph Muawiya II is succeeded by Marwan I.
- August 18 – Battle of Marj Rahit: Umayyad partisans defeat the supporters of Ibn al-Zubayr and cement Umayyad control of Syria.
- September 7 – A large comet is observed in Japan (it's Japan's oldest observation record of the Halley's Comet).
- November 13 – Emperor Temmu institutes eight titles of eight classes (Yakusa-no-kabane) in Japan.
- November 26 – A great earthquake strikes Japan. The people, houses, temples, shrines and domestic animals are greatly damaged.
America
- January 10 – K'inich Kan B'alam II accedes to the rulership of the Maya polity of Palenque.
By topic
Religion
- June 26 – Pope Benedict II succeeds Pope Leo II as the 81st pope.
Births
- Gao Lishi, Chinese official and court eunuch (d. 762)
- Tachibana no Moroe, Japanese prince and minister (d. 757)
Deaths
- Luo Binwang, Chinese poet and official (b. c. 640)
- Li Xian
- November 30 – Pei Yan, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty