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The year 689 is a common year starting on a Friday.

Events
April 20: The former king of the Western Saxons Cædwalla dies in Rome, ten days after his baptism by Pope Serge .

Governor Hassan ibn al-Nu

Asuka Kiyomihara Code, promulgated by the Empress of Japan Jitô.

Naval defeat of the kingdom of Tarumanagara (Western Java) in front of the city-state of Sriwijaya (South Sumatra), which thus gains hegemony on the straits of the Sound (present-day Indonesia) and Malacca (present-day Malaysia).

Peace treaty signed for ten years between the Byzantine Empire and the Omayyads. Justinian II agreed to move the Mardaïts, warlike mountains of the Amanus, who were raiding Muslim territories to Thrace, Cilicia and Pamphylia. Abd al-Malik and Justinian II agree to share the taxes of Armenia, Cyprus and Iberia.

Herstal's puppy fights the Friars. Their prince Radbod was beaten in Wyk-lez-Duurstede (Dorestad) and was to yield the West Friesland to Pépin (take of Utrecht).
The king of the Lombards Cunipert is victorious of the Austrian duke Alagis de Trento (Cornate of Adda). Catholicism became a state religion in the Lombard kingdom.
Justinian II's expedition against the Slavs of Macedonia, who are in part deported to Bithynia to strengthen the defense against the Arabs (Justinian can lift a contingent of in the transplanted population). This campaign allows the Byzantines to rally Thessaloniki through the Slavic country.

Births in 689

Death in 689

8 July: Saint Kilian, Irish monk, evangelizer of northern Gaul.

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