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This article is about the year 687. For the number, see 687 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	650s 660s 670s – 680s – 690s 700s 710s
Years:	684 685 686 – 687 – 688 689 690

687 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
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Establishments – Disestablishments
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687 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	687 DCLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1440
Armenian calendar	136 ԹՎ ՃԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	5437
Bahá'í calendar	−1157 – −1156
Bengali calendar	94
Berber calendar	1637
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1231
Burmese calendar	49
Byzantine calendar	6195–6196
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3383 or 3323 — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3384 or 3324
Coptic calendar	403–404
Discordian calendar	1853
Ethiopian calendar	679–680
Hebrew calendar	4447–4448
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	743–744
- Shaka Samvat	609–610
- Kali Yuga	3788–3789
Holocene calendar	10687
Igbo calendar	−313 – −312
Iranian calendar	65–66
Islamic calendar	67–68
Japanese calendar	N/A
Juche calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	687 DCLXXXVII
Korean calendar	3020
Minguo calendar	1225 before ROC 民前1225年
Thai solar calendar	1230
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Year 687 (DCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 687 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

Emperor Justinian II negotiates a peace treaty with the Umayyad Caliphate (resulting in caliph Abd al-Malik paying tribute). He removes from Lebanon 12,000 Christian Maronites, who continually resist the Arabs.^[1] Justinian reinforces the Byzantine navy on Cyprus and transfers cavalry troops from Anatolia to the Thracesian Theme (Balkan Peninsula).

Battle of Tertry: King Theuderic III of Neustria is defeated by Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, near Péronne (modern France) at the River Somme. Theuderic withdraws to Paris and is forced to sign a peace treaty. Pepin becomes "de facto" ruler of the Frankish Kingdom and begins calling himself Duke of the Franks. He establishes a base for future rise of the Pippinids and Carolingian dynasty. Pepin appoints Nordebert as Duke of Burgundy, and puts him in charge of Neustria and Burgundy (as a sort of regent).
King Erwig dies after a 7-year reign and is succeeded by his son-in-law Ergica as ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.

King Mul of Kent and 12 companions are burnt to death during a Kentish uprising. His brother, king Cædwalla of Wessex ravages the kingdom in revenge.
Adomnán, Irish abbot of Iona, visits the court of king Ecgfrith to ransom Irish captives (60 Gaels who has been captured in a Northumbrian raid).

Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne, resigns his office and retires to his hermitage on Inner Farne (Northumberland) where he dies, after a painful illness.^[2]
September 21 – Pope Conon I dies at Rome after a 1-year reign and is succeeded by Sergius I as the 84th pope of the Catholic Church.
Construction of the Dome of the Rock, located on the Temple Mount, is started in Jerusalem (approximate date).

↑ Bury, p. 321
↑ Farmer, David Hugh (1997). "The Oxford Dictionary of Saints": Oxford Univ. Press, p. 120. ISBN 0-19-280058-2

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