692

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	660s 670s 680s – 690s – 700s 710s 720s
Years:	689 690 691 – 692 – 693 694 695

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

692 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	692 DCXCII
Ab urbe condita	1445
Armenian calendar	141 ԹՎ ՃԽԱ
Assyrian calendar	5442
Bengali calendar	99
Berber calendar	1642
Buddhist calendar	1236
Burmese calendar	54
Byzantine calendar	6200–6201
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3388 or 3328 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3389 or 3329
Coptic calendar	408–409
Discordian calendar	1858
Ethiopian calendar	684–685
Hebrew calendar	4452–4453
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	748–749
- Shaka Samvat	614–615
- Kali Yuga	3793–3794
Holocene calendar	10692
Iranian calendar	70–71
Islamic calendar	72–73
Japanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	692 DCXCII
Korean calendar	3025
Minguo calendar	1220 before ROC 民前1220年
Seleucid era	1003/1004 AG
Thai solar calendar	1234–1235

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The Temple of the Cross at Palenque (Mexico)

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 Zetian regains control of the Kingdom of Khotan in the Tarim Basin (Northwest China).

Mesoamerica

The Temple of the Cross at Palenque (Mexico) is constructed to commemorate the rise of king K'inich Kan B'alam II to the throne (approximate date).

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]

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