697

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	660s 670s 680s – 690s – 700s 710s 720s
Years:	694 695 696 – 697 – 698 699 700

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

697 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	697 DCXCVII
Ab urbe condita	1450
Armenian calendar	146 ԹՎ ՃԽԶ
Assyrian calendar	5447
Bengali calendar	104
Berber calendar	1647
Buddhist calendar	1241
Burmese calendar	59
Byzantine calendar	6205–6206
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3393 or 3333 — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3394 or 3334
Coptic calendar	413–414
Discordian calendar	1863
Ethiopian calendar	689–690
Hebrew calendar	4457–4458
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	753–754
- Shaka Samvat	619–620
- Kali Yuga	3798–3799
Holocene calendar	10697
Iranian calendar	75–76
Islamic calendar	77–78
Japanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	697 DCXCVII
Korean calendar	3030
Minguo calendar	1215 before ROC 民前1215年
Seleucid era	1008/1009 AG
Thai solar calendar	1239–1240

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Year 697 (DCXCVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 697 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

Paolo Lucio Anafesto is elected the first Doge of Venice and begins its rise as a major power in the Mediterranean Sea. Built up from fishing villages settled by fugitives from the Huns (see 452), the city of Venice occupies some 60 marshy islands (Venetian Lagoon).
Radbod, king of the Frisians, retreats to the island of Heligoland in the North Sea (approximate date).

Queen Osthryth of Mercia is murdered by her own noblemen. She is buried at Bardney Abbey (Lincolnshire) and later revered as a saint.

Syrian forces under Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, governor of Iraq, defeat the Persian Kharijites who have captured the city of Mosul and occupy large parts of Mesopotamia (approximate date).

Empress Jitō abdicates the throne in favor of the 14-year-old Monmu (grandson of late emperor Tenmu). During her 11-year reign she has established the foundations of law in Japan.

Council of Birr: The northern part of Ireland accepts the Roman calculations for celebrating Easter. At this synod Adomnán, abbot of Iona (Scotland), promulgates his Cáin Adomnáin ("Law of the Innocents").
A festival for the opening of the eyes of Buddhist images is held in Yakushi-ji Temple in Japan (approximate date).