682

This article is about the year 682. For the number, see 682 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	650s  660s  670s  – 680s –  690s  700s  710s
Years:	679 680 681 – 682 – 683 684 685

682 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

682 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	682 DCLXXXII
Ab urbe condita	1435
Armenian calendar	131 ԹՎ ՃԼԱ
Assyrian calendar	5432
Bengali calendar	89
Berber calendar	1632
Buddhist calendar	1226
Burmese calendar	44
Byzantine calendar	6190–6191
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3378 or 3318     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3379 or 3319
Coptic calendar	398–399
Discordian calendar	1848
Ethiopian calendar	674–675
Hebrew calendar	4442–4443
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	738–739
- Shaka Samvat	604–605
- Kali Yuga	3783–3784
Holocene calendar	10682
Iranian calendar	60–61
Islamic calendar	62–63
Japanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	682 DCLXXXII
Korean calendar	3015
Minguo calendar	1230 before ROC 民前1230年
Seleucid era	993/994 AG
Thai solar calendar	1224–1225

File:Pope Leo II.jpg

Pope Leo II (682–683)

Year 682 (DCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 682 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

Europe

• King Erwig of the Visigoths continues oppression of the Jews in Spain. He makes it illegal to practice any Jewish rites (brit milah) and presses for the conversion or emigration of the remaining Jews.
• Ghislemar becomes mayor of the palace in Neustria and Burgundy after he deposes his father Waratton. He reverses the peace treaty with Austrasia, signed with Pepin of Herstal at Namur.

Britain

• King Ecgfrith requests Benedict Biscop to build a second monastery at Jarrow (Northumbria). Benedict leaves Monkwearmouth with 20 monks (including his protégé the young Bede).
• The West Saxons, led by king Centwine, drive the Britons of Dumnonia (West Country) to the sea (possibly around Bideford).
• The wandering ex-Wessex sub-king, Cædwalla, seeks St. Wilfrid as his spiritual father but does not convert to Christianity.

Africa

• Muslim forces led by Uqba ibn Nafi overrun the south coast of the Mediterranean Sea. He occupies the cities Tripoli and Carthage last Byzantine bases in Africa (approximate date).

Asia

• Due to a culmination of major droughts, floods, locust plagues, and epidemics, a widespread famine breaks out in the dual Chinese capital cities of Chang'an (primary capital) and Luoyang (secondary capital). The scarcity of food drives the price of grain to unprecedented heights, ending a once prosperous era under emperors Tai Zong and Gao Zong on a sad note.
• Emperor Tenmu issues a decree forbidding the Japanese-style cap of ranks and garments, and changing them into Chinese ones. He also makes a decree forbidding men to wear leggings and women to let down their hair on their backs. It is from this time that the practice begins of women riding on horseback like men. He issues an edict prescribing the character of ceremonies and language to be used on occasions of ceremony. Ceremonial kneeling and crawling are both abolished, and the ceremonial custom of standing of the Tang court is practiced.

Mesoamerica

• Jasaw Chan K'awiil I starts to rule in Tikal (modern Guatemala) during the Late Classic periode.

By topic

Astronomy

• January 3 – Venus occults Jupiter.

Literature

• The first entry is made in the Welsh chronicle Brut y Tywysogion.

Religion

• August 17 – Pope Leo II succeeds Agatho as the 80th pope after a periode of sede vacante ("vacant seat") of a year and 7 months.

Births

• Clovis IV, king of the Franks (d. 695)
• Li Chongrun, prince of the Tang Dynasty (d. 701)
• July 20 – Taichō, Japanese Buddhist monk (d. 767)
• November 2 – Umar II, Muslim caliph (d. 720)

Deaths

• Barbatus, bishop of Benevento
• Bilal ibn al-Harith, companion of Muhammad (approximate date)
• Bojang, king of Goguryeo (Korea)
• Buyeo Yung, prince of Baekje (in exile in Luoyang)
• Cadwaladr, king of Gwynedd (Wales)
• Cenn Fáelad mac Colgan, king of Connacht (Ireland)
• Li Jingxuan, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 615)
• Maslama ibn Mukhallad al-Ansari, companion of Muhammad
• Sun Simiao, Chinese medicine doctor