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The 670s cover the 670-679 period.

Events
Around 666/670: monks bring to Fleury-sur-Loire supposed relics of Benoît de Nursie and manuscripts stolen from Mount Cassin.
669-672: Third Muslim campaign against Byzantine Africa. The Arabs led by Oqba ibn Nafi are conquering Ifriqiya (the Eastern Maghreb). Raid and Berber massacre.
669, 672-677: failure of the attacks on Constantinople by the Arab fleet of Muawiya, repelled by the Greek fire. It threatens Rhodes, Cyprus and Crete.
Around 670-700: Anglo-Saxon missionaries evangelize the continent.
671-676: Silla-Tang War; The Korean kingdom of Silla unifies Korea after hunting the Chinese.
671-680: Adityasena Gupta, the ruler of Magadha, in northern India , the most important of the second part of the ; He is the last to practice the sacrifice of horses.
671: Independence of the Aquitaine under the Duke Wolf of Vasconia.
672: Jinshin War in Japan.
673-755: the so-called era of lazy kings; wars between Neustria and Austrasia at the death of Clotaire III (673) and then Childeric II (675). Period of anarchy in Gaul. Trade and industry are definitely ruined. The country is divided into independent and hostile fragments: Austrasia, Neustria, Aquitaine. The authority escapes from the Merovingian kings to fall into the hands of the mayors of the Palace, butlers and finance ministers. Around the office, merciless struggles are waged between the great families, much richer and powerful than the kings who have stripped themselves to obtain their favor. The Pippinide family thrives along the new economic axis, the Meuse, where more than 90 large estates belonging to it have been identified.
679: Under pressure from the Khazars, the newly emancipated Proto-Bulgarians of the Avars under khan Koubrat, commanded by Asparukh, reach the Danube Delta and settle in Dobrujah.

Significant characters
Adéodat II - Agathon (pape) - Childeric II - Clovis III - Constantine IV - Cuthbert from Lindisfarne - Broken - Oqba Ibn Nafaa - Herstal puppy - Thierry III - Wamba - Wilfrid from York

Notes and references

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