676

This article is about the year 676. For the number, see 676 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	640s  650s  660s  – 670s –  680s  690s  700s
Years:	673 674 675 – 676 – 677 678 679

676 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

676 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	676 DCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1429
Armenian calendar	125 ԹՎ ՃԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	5426
Bengali calendar	83
Berber calendar	1626
Buddhist calendar	1220
Burmese calendar	38
Byzantine calendar	6184–6185
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3372 or 3312     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3373 or 3313
Coptic calendar	392–393
Discordian calendar	1842
Ethiopian calendar	668–669
Hebrew calendar	4436–4437
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	732–733
- Shaka Samvat	598–599
- Kali Yuga	3777–3778
Holocene calendar	10676
Iranian calendar	54–55
Islamic calendar	56–57
Japanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	676 DCLXXVI
Korean calendar	3009
Minguo calendar	1236 before ROC 民前1236年
Seleucid era	987/988 AG
Thai solar calendar	1218–1219

File:Tiers de sou de Dagobert II.jpeg

King Dagobert II of Austrasia (c. 650–679)

Year 676 (DCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 676 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

• Summer – Siege of Constantinople: Caliph Muawiyah I sends his son Yazid with Muslim reinforcements to Constantinople. At the same time, the Byzantines have to face a Slavic attack on Thessaloniki (modern Macedonia) and Lombard attacks in Italy.

Europe

• Dagobert II, son of the late king Sigibert III, becomes partly with help of bishop Wilfrid the new ruler of Austrasia after his predecessor Clovis III is murdered.

Britain

• King Æthelred of Mercia invades Kent in an attempt to enforce overlordship and diminish Kentish influence in Surrey and London. His armies destroy the Diocese of Rochester (seat of the bishops in West Kent) and ravage the surrounding countryside.
• King Æscwine of Wessex dies after a 2-year reign and is succeeded by Centwine, son of the late king Cynegils. He reasserts the power of his Anglo-Saxon kingdom over the Welsh.

Asia

• Emperor Tenmu of Japan promulgate a decree in about taxes from fiefs and the employment of persons for the service from the outer provinces. Men of distinguished ability are allowed to enter the service, even though they are of the common people, regardless of their ranks.

By topic

Religion

• Aldhelm, Anglo-Saxon scholar-poet, founds Malmesbury Abbey on the site of the hermitage of his old tutor Máel Dub.
• Æthelred of Mercia founds the monastery at Breedon on the Hill on the site of The Bulwarks, an Iron Age hill fort.
• June 17 – Pope Adeodatus II dies at Rome after a reign of 4 years. He is succeeded by Donus as the 78th pope.
• Cuthbert of Lindisfarne retires to a hermitage near Holburn, at a place now known as St. Cuthbert's Cave.

Births

• John of Damascus, Syrian monk and priest (approximate date)
• Muhammad al-Baqir, imām and descendant of Muhammad (d. 733)
• January 28 – Toneri, Japanese prince (d. 735)

Deaths

• Æscwine, king of Wessex
• Clovis III, king of Austrasia
• June 17 – Pope Adeodatus II
• Le Yanwei, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
• Mangsong Mangtsen, emperor of Tibet
• Wang Bo, Chinese poet