695

This article is about the year 695. For the number, see 695 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	660s  670s  680s  – 690s –  700s  710s  720s
Years:	692 693 694 – 695 – 696 697 698

695 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

695 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	695 DCXCV
Ab urbe condita	1448
Armenian calendar	144 ԹՎ ՃԽԴ
Assyrian calendar	5445
Bengali calendar	102
Berber calendar	1645
Buddhist calendar	1239
Burmese calendar	57
Byzantine calendar	6203–6204
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3391 or 3331     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3392 or 3332
Coptic calendar	411–412
Discordian calendar	1861
Ethiopian calendar	687–688
Hebrew calendar	4455–4456
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	751–752
- Shaka Samvat	617–618
- Kali Yuga	3796–3797
Holocene calendar	10695
Iranian calendar	73–74
Islamic calendar	75–76
Japanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	695 DCXCV
Korean calendar	3028
Minguo calendar	1217 before ROC 民前1217年
Seleucid era	1006/1007 AG
Thai solar calendar	1237–1238

Emperor Leontios of Byzantium (695–698)

Year 695 (DCXCV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 695 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

• The population of Byzantium revolt under Leontios, the strategos (military governor) of the Anatolic Theme, and proclaim him emperor. Justinian II is deposed and his nose is cut off (leading to his subsequent nickname of "the Slit-nosed"). He is exiled to Cherson (Crimea) and begins to plot an attempt to retake the throne.

Europe

• Childebert III succeeds Clovis IV as sole king of the Franks. He is the son of Theuderic III and becomes a puppet—a roi fainéant—of Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the palace of Austrasia.
• Pepin institutes his son Drogo as mayor of the palace of Burgundy. His younger son Grimoald II becomes mayor of the palace of Neustria.
• The Saxons defeat the Bructeri between the Lippe and the Ruhr, and occupy Westphalia in Germany (approximate date).

Britain

• September 6 – King Wihtred of Kent who maintains Kentish independence against the growing expansion of Mercia, issues one of the earliest known law codes of Britain.
• King Aldfrith of Northumbria marries princess Cuthburh, sister of king Ine of Wessex (approximate date).

Mesoamerica

• Tikal defeats Calakmul (modern Guatemala), ending a centuries long rivalry, but ushering in another century of warfare that ultimately led to both cities abandomenet in the 9th century.
• Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil ("Eighteen Rabbit") becomes ruler (ajaw) of the Mayan city-state Copán (Honduras).

By topic

Religion

• November 21 – Willibrord, Northumbrian missionary, becomes the first bishop of Utrecht (Netherlands). He returns to Frisia to preach and built numerous churches (approximate date).
• Willibrord establishes a Benedictine training centre for priests and young noblemen. This seminary becomes later the Utrecht University.
• Suitbert, Anglo-Saxon missionary, founds a monastery at Kaiserswerth (near Düsseldorf) in Germany (approximate date).

Births

• Fujiwara no Maro, Japanese statesman (d. 737)
• Herlindis of Maaseik, Frankish abbess (approximate date)
• Kibi no Makibi, Japanese scholar (d. 775)
• Muhammad ibn Qasim, Arab general (d. 715)
• Ōtomo no Koshibi, Japanese general (d. 777)
• Shang, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (or 698)
• Theophilus of Edessa, Greek astrologer (d. 785)
• Zayd ibn Ali, Arab imam and grandson of Husayn ibn Ali (d. 740)

Deaths

• Ado, duke of Friuli (Northern Italy)
• Ansbert of Rouen, Frankish bishop
• Chan Imix K'awiil, Mayan ruler (ajaw)
• Clovis IV, king of the Franks (b. 682)
• Sæbbi, king of Kent (approximate date)