692
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 692 by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 692 DCXCII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1445 |
| Armenian calendar | 141 ԹՎ ՃԽԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5442 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 613–614 |
| Bengali calendar | 99 |
| Berber calendar | 1642 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1236 |
| Burmese calendar | 54 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6200–6201 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3389 or 3182 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3390 or 3183 |
| Coptic calendar | 408–409 |
| Discordian calendar | 1858 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 684–685 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4452–4453 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 748–749 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 613–614 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3792–3793 |
| Holocene calendar | 10692 |
| Iranian calendar | 70–71 |
| Islamic calendar | 72–73 |
| Japanese calendar | Shuchō 7 (朱鳥７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 584–585 |
| Julian calendar | 692 DCXCII |
| Korean calendar | 3025 |
| Minguo calendar | 1220 before ROC 民前1220年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −776 |
| Seleucid era | 1003/1004 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1234–1235 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 818 or 437 or −335 — to — 阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 819 or 438 or −334 |
Year 692 (DCXCII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 692 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
- Battle of Sebastopolis: The Byzantine army under Leontios is defeated at Sebastopolis (modern Turkey) by Arab forces led by Muhammad ibn Marwan. During the battle a "special military corps" (some 20,000 Slavs) under Neboulos desert the Byzantine lines and went over to the Muslim Arabs.
- Arab–Byzantine War: Muslim conquest of Armenia, Iberia and Colchis, last remaining Byzantine holdings east of the Taurus Mountains. Emperor Justinian II is forced to agree to joint Byzantine-Arab control of Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (approximate date).
Britain
- King Ine of Wessex installs his kinsman, Nothelm, as ruler of Sussex. According to Bede, Sussex is subjected to Ine for a number of years.[1]
Asia
- Empress Wu conquers the Kingdom of Khotan.
By topic
Religion
- The Quinisext Council is held in Constantinople, it lays the foundation for the Orthodox canon law. Justinian II suppresses non-Orthodox religious practices, he orders the arrest of pope Sergius I; the militias of Rome and the Exarchate of Ravenna refuse, and take the pope's side.[2]
Births
Deaths
- Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr, Arab sahabi (b. 624)