698

This article is about the year 698. For the number (and other uses), see 698 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	660s 670s 680s – 690s – 700s 710s 720s
Years:	695 696 697 – 698 – 699 700 701

698 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

Year 698 (DCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 698 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

Spring–summer – Arabs under Hassan ibn al-Nu'man capture Carthage from the Byzantine Empire, and destroy it completely. The defeated Byzantine fleet revolts and proclaims Tiberius III, who deposes Leontius after a brief siege of Constantinople and becomes Byzantine Emperor.^[1]^[2]
Autumn–winter – The Byzantine general Heraclius, brother of Tiberius III, launches a campaign into Syria, defeats an army from Antioch and raids as far as Samosata.^[3]^[4]

At the Synod of Aquileia (also referred to as the Synod of Pavia), the bishops of the diocese of Aquileia decide to end the Schism of the Three Chapters and return to communion with Rome.
Probable date of Cuthbert's burial behind the altar at Lindisfarne.
Princess Taki is sent to the Saikū as a Saiō of the Ise Shrine, Japan.

^ Venning, Timothy, ed (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 187. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.
^ Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 337–339, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2, http://books.google.com/books?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC
^ Venning, Timothy, ed (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 188. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.
^ Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 339, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2, http://books.google.com/books?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC