Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 691 A.D. through 700 A.D.
- 691 to 700
- Clovis III becomes king of all the Franks (691 - 695)
- The Arabs defeat Justinian II at Sebastopolis,
Cilicia (693)
- Arabs overrun Armenia (694)
- Justinian II deposed by Leontius (695 - 698)
- Childebert III, king of all the Franks (695 - 711)
- Paoluccio Anafesto becomes the first doge of Venice
(696)
- The Arabs destroy Carthage (697)
- Emperor Leontius (see 695) deposed by Tiberius III
(698 - 705)
- Thuringia becomes part of the Frankish empire (700)
- The family of the Angilofings, hereditary dukes of
Bavaria, makes Ratisbon their capital (700)
- Arabs conquer Algiers--Christianity in N. Africa
almost exterminated (700)
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