691 CE

Battle of Maskin: An Umayyad army under caliph Abd al-Malik defeats the rebel forces in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). He reconquers the Arabian Peninsula, taking the holy city of Medina. Wilfrid, abbot of Ripon, tries to make himself bishop of all Northumbria. King Aldfrith seizes many of his Ripon Abbey estates, and proposes to create a bishopric there. Wilfrid is banished and flees to Mercia, where King Æthelred makes him bishop of Leicester. The Dome of the Rock is completed in Jerusalem (under the patronage of Abd al-Malik) during the Second Fitna, becoming the first work of Islamic architecture.

In the 690s, the 7th century.

Conflict & Security

  • Battle of Maskin: An Umayyad army under caliph Abd al-Malik defeats the rebel forces in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). He reconquers the Arabian Peninsula, taking the holy city of Medina.source

Religion & Belief

  • Wilfrid, abbot of Ripon, tries to make himself bishop of all Northumbria. King Aldfrith seizes many of his Ripon Abbey estates, and proposes to create a bishopric there. Wilfrid is banished and flees to Mercia, where King Æthelred makes him bishop of Leicester.source

Culture & Society

  • The Dome of the Rock is completed in Jerusalem (under the patronage of Abd al-Malik) during the Second Fitna, becoming the first work of Islamic architecture.source

Births

  • Marwan II, Muslim caliph (died 750)source
  • Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, Muslim caliph (died 743)source

Deaths

  • August 24 – Fu Youyi, official of the Tang dynastysource
  • November 7 – Cen Changqian, official of the Tang dynastysource
  • November 7 – Ge Fuyuan, official of the Tang dynastysource
  • Theuderic III, king of the Franks (born 654)source
  • Sun Guoting, Chinese calligrapher (born 646)source
  • King Theuderic III dies and is succeeded by his son Clovis IV, age 9, as sole ruler of the Franks. He becomes a puppet—a roi fainéant—of his uncle Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the palace of Austrasia.source
  • Fithceallach mac Flainn, king of Uí Maine (Ireland)source