Explore 36 historical events from 680–689.
Taichō was a shugendō monk in Nara period Japan. He was raised in Echizen Province, which was in the southern portion of present-day Fukui Prefecture. He was the second son of Mik…
Taichō, Japanese monk and scholar (died 767)
Pope Honorius I was the bishop of Rome from his consecration on 27 October 625 until his death. He actively supported the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons, notably by sending S…
Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council.
The Third Council of Constantinople, counted as the Sixth Ecumenical Council by the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches, and by certain other Western Churches, met in 680–681 an…
At the Third Council of Constantinople, Pope Honorius I was posthumously excommunicated, with his support for…
Pope Honorius I was the bishop of Rome from his consecration on 27 October 625 until his death. He actively supported the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons, notably by sending S…
Pope Honorius I was posthumously excommunicated at the Third Council of Constantinople, with his support for…
The Battle of Karbala was fought on 10 October 680 between the forces of the second Umayyad caliph Yazid I, and the small caravan of Husayn ibn Ali, second son of Ali and grandson …
The Battle of Karbala marks the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.
Mu'awiya I was the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 661 until his death. He became caliph less than thirty years after the death of the Islamic prophe…
Mu'awiya I, Umayyad caliph (born 602)
Ghislain was a confessor and anchorite in Belgium. He died at the town named after him, Saint-Ghislain.
Ghislain, Frankish anchorite and saint
Abbas ibn Ali, also known as Abu al-Fadl, was a son of Ali and Umm al-Banin, a half-brother of both Hasan and Husayn, Husayn's standard-bearer in the Battle of Karbala, and one of …
Abbas ibn Ali, son of Imam Ali
Ali al-Akbar ibn al-Husayn, commonly known as Ali al-Akbar, was a great-grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Husayn. Aged between eighteen and twenty-five, al-Akba…
Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn, son of Al-Husayn
Habib ibn Muzahir was a member of the Banu Asad clan and a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Ali, Hasan, and Husayn. He was among those in Kufa who invited Husayn to the c…
Habib ibn Madhahir
Husayn ibn Ali was the second son of Ali and Fatima, a younger brother of Hasan and grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He is the third Shia Imam, succeeding his brother Hasa…
Husayn ibn Ali, third Shia Imam and grandson of Muhammad (born 626)
Husayn ibn Ali was the second son of Ali and Fatima, a younger brother of Hasan and grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He is the third Shia Imam, succeeding his brother Hasa…
Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of Muhammad, was killed at the Battle of Karbala (depicted) by the forces of Yazid I, whom…