678

This page relates to the year 678 Calendrier Julien.

Events

  • Beginning of the Pontificate of holy Agathon (fine in 682).
  • Ebroïn leaves the abbey of Luxeuil, keep silent Leudesius, puts in safety the young person Thierry III. All the personnel of the palate of Neustrie is transformed. The bishop of Autun Saint Leger is tortured, plugged, deposited and assassinated by Ebroïn. Its partisans take refuge in Aquitaine.
  • Beginning of the evangelization of the Plank by Wilfrid of York.
  • the Byzantines use the Greek fire during the seat of Constantinople by the Arabs.
  • the Arab blockade of Byzance fails. Arabs and Byzantines sign a peace treaty concluded for thirty years.
  • In India, the Châlukya Vinayaditya succeeds his/her father Vikramaditya (fine in 696). It reigns in peace, receiving tribute of the Pallava and the dynasties of the south.

Births in 678

Death in 678

  • Martyr of Holy Leger the bishop of Autun.

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