695

By place

Byzantine Empire

• The population of Byzantium revolts under Leontios, the strategos of the Anatolic Theme, and proclaims him emperor. Justinian II is deposed and his nose is cut off. He is exiled to Cherson, and begins to plot an attempt to retake the throne.

  Europe

• Childebert III succeeds Clovis IV as sole king of the Franks. He is the son of Theuderic III and becomes a puppet—a roi fainéant—of Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the palace of Austrasia.
• Pepin institutes his son Drogo as mayor of the palace of Burgundy. His younger son Grimoald II becomes mayor of the palace of Neustria.
• The Saxons defeat the Bructeri between the Lippe and the Ruhr, and occupy Westphalia in Germany.

  Britain

• September 6 - King Wihtred of Kent, who maintains Kentish independence against the growing expansion of Mercia, issues one of the earliest known law codes of Britain.
• King Aldfrith of Northumbria marries Princess Cuthburh, sister of King Ine of Wessex.

  Mesoamerica

• Tikal defeats Calakmul, ending a centuries-long rivalry, but ushering in another century of warfare that ultimately leads to both cities' abandonment in the 9th century.
• Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil becomes ruler of the Mayan city-state Copán.

  By topic

Religion

• November 21 - Willibrord, Northumbrian missionary, becomes the first bishop of Utrecht. He returns to Frisia to preach, and builds numerous churches.
• Willibrord establishes a Benedictine training centre for priests and young noblemen. This seminary later becomes Utrecht University.
• Suitbert, Anglo-Saxon missionary, founds a monastery at Kaiserswerth in Germany.