699

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	660s 670s 680s – 690s – 700s 710s 720s
Years:	696 697 698 – 699 – 700 701 702

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

699 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	699 DCXCIX
Ab urbe condita	1452
Armenian calendar	148 ԹՎ ՃԽԸ
Assyrian calendar	5449
Bengali calendar	106
Berber calendar	1649
Buddhist calendar	1243
Burmese calendar	61
Byzantine calendar	6207–6208
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3395 or 3335 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3396 or 3336
Coptic calendar	415–416
Discordian calendar	1865
Ethiopian calendar	691–692
Hebrew calendar	4459–4460
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	755–756
- Shaka Samvat	621–622
- Kali Yuga	3800–3801
Holocene calendar	10699
Iranian calendar	77–78
Islamic calendar	79–80
Japanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	699 DCXCIX
Korean calendar	3032
Minguo calendar	1213 before ROC 民前1213年
Seleucid era	1010/1011 AG
Thai solar calendar	1241–1242

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En no Ozunu (c. 634–c.700)

Year 699 (DCXCIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 699 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

Umayyad troops invade Armenia and secure submission of prince Smbat VI Bagratuni. The South Caucasus becomes a viceroyalty called al-Arminiya and is divided into four regions: Caucasian Albania, Caucasian Iberia, area around the Aras River and Taron (modern Turkey).^[1]^[2]
Winter – Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath leads an Arab army in revolt against Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, overall governor of the eastern Muslim territories. Marching to Iraq, Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath occupies Basra, and then moves against Kufa where he enters the city in triumph.^[3]

June 26 – En no Ozunu, Japanese ascetic, is banished to Izu Ōshima (a volcanic island in the Izu Islands) and accused of confusing the mind of the people with magic. He will be later regarded as the founder of a folk religion called Shugendō.

↑ 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
↑ Venning, Timothy, ed. (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 187. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4