677 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 677
DCLXXVII
Ab urbe condita 1430
Armenian calendar 126
ԹՎ ՃԻԶ
Assyrian calendar 5427
Balinese saka calendar 598–599
Bengali calendar 83–84
Berber calendar 1627
Buddhist calendar 1221
Burmese calendar 39
Byzantine calendar 6185–6186
Chinese calendar 丙子年 (Fire Rat)
3374 or 3167
    — to —
丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
3375 or 3168
Coptic calendar 393–394
Discordian calendar 1843
Ethiopian calendar 669–670
Hebrew calendar 4437–4438
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 733–734
 - Shaka Samvat 598–599
 - Kali Yuga 3777–3778
Holocene calendar 10677
Iranian calendar 55–56
Islamic calendar 57–58
Japanese calendar Hakuchi 28
(白雉２８年)
Javanese calendar 569–570
Julian calendar 677
DCLXXVII
Korean calendar 3010
Minguo calendar 1235 before ROC
民前1235年
Nanakshahi calendar −791
Seleucid era 988/989 AG
Thai solar calendar 1219–1220
Tibetan calendar མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་
(male Fire-Rat)
803 or 422 or −350
    — to —
མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་
(female Fire-Ox)
804 or 423 or −349

Year 677 (DCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 677 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

  • The Onogur Bulgars are scattered by the Khazars, who then establish a great Steppe empire, centered on the Lower Volga. The Onogurs depart to the Pannonian Plain.[1]
  • Warinus, Frankish nobleman, is stoned to death near Arras, because of a feud between his brother, Leodegar (bishop of Autun), and Ebroin, the Mayor of the Palace of Neustria.
  • 25 – 27 July: Climax of the Siege of Thessalonica: Slavic forces launch a large-scale assault on the city walls, but are repelled.

Asia

  • Tang China declares the deposed Bojang of Goguryeo "King of Joseon", placing him in charge of the Liaodong area under the Protectorate General to Pacify the East.

Americas

  • At Pulil, the army of Calakmul vanquishes the insurgency led by Nuun Ujol Chaak, meaning Bʼalaj Chan Kʼawiil is able to return to rule Dos Pilas, from his exile in the kingdom of Hix Witz.

Births

  • Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik, Arab general (approximate date)
  • Clovis IV, King of the Franks (d. 694)
  • Nanyue Huairang, Chinese Zen Buddhist patriarch (d. 744)

Deaths

  • Constantine I, patriarch of Constantinople
  • Drest VI, king of the Picts
  • Vincent Madelgarius, Frankish monk
  • Warinus, Frankish nobleman

References

  1. ^ The Early Medieval Balkans, by John V.A. Fine, Jr (1991). The Slavic Invasions, p. 67. ISBN 978-0-472-08149-3