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This article is about the year 675. For the number (and other uses), see 675 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 640s 650s 660s – 670s – 680s 690s 700s |
| Years: | 672 673 674 – 675 – 676 677 678 |
| 675 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 675 DCLXXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1428 |
| Armenian calendar | 124 ԹՎ ՃԻԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5425 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1169–-1168 |
| Bengali calendar | 82 |
| Berber calendar | 1625 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1219 |
| Burmese calendar | 37 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6183–6184 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲戌年十一月三十日 (3311/3371-11-30) — to —
乙亥年十二月初十日(3312/3372-12-10) |
| Coptic calendar | 391–392 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 667–668 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4435–4436 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 731–732 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 597–598 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3776–3777 |
| Holocene calendar | 10675 |
| Iranian calendar | 53–54 |
| Islamic calendar | 55–56 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3008 |
| Minguo calendar | 1237 before ROC 民前1237年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1218 |
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Year 675 (DCLXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 675 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
- Æthelred succeeds his brother Wulfhere as king of Mercia.
- Frithuwold of Surrey is baptised and so is his son; Surrey becomes Christian.
Asia
- The twenty-five-year-old Wang Bo (王勃) writes Tengwang Ge Xu to celebrate the Tengwang Pavilion.
- January 5 – In Japan, a platform to observe the stars for astrologers is erected for the first time.
- March 14 – Princess Tōchi and Princess Abe of Japan proceed to Ise Jingu.
- March 16 – Emperor Temmu, Japan's current emperor, decrees the end of serfdom. He also orders an end to granting lands to Princes of the Blood, to Princes and to Ministers and Temples.
- May 8 – The Japanese Emperor issues a decree to distribute the tax-rice for peasants in poverty, as well as a decree regulating of fishing and hunting, ordering a halt to eating the flesh of cattle, horses, dogs, monkeys or barn-yard fowls.
- Some Japanese ministers who oppose the Emperor are banished to an isolated island. A man climbs the hill east of the Palace, curses the Emperor and kills himself.
- September 16 – A typhoon strikes Japan.
By topic
Religion
- The abbeys of Abingdon, England and Bath are founded.
- Aldhelm is made abbot of Malmesbury Abbey.
Births
Deaths
- Saint Colman, bishop of Lindisfarne
- Wulfhere, king of Mercia
- Saint Amand
- Li Hong
References
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