685

This page relates to the year 685 Calendrier Julien.

Events

May 20th: Battle of Nechtansmere or Dunnichen: the Pictes of Brude Mac Bili, combined with the Breton , push back the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbrie and off fix their border at the Firth Forth, in Scotland. The king Egfrid of Northumbrie is killed in the battle.

September: Beginning of the first reign of Justinien II Rhinotmète, Byzantine Emperor (fine in 695).

practical Justinien II a policy of repopulation of the areas deserted by massive deportations.

From “Abd Al-Malik, the policy Omeyyade is characterized by an effort for better organizing the empire and arabiser the administration.
During the time omeyyade constitutes a mode of the property which places the countryside in the dependence of the city.
Under Abd Al-Malik is carried out new interventions on the text of the Coran.

Abd Al-Malik and Constantin IV is intended to share the taxes of the Arménie, Cyprus and Ibérie.
the Arabs take Kabul.

the Bouddhisme becomes Religion of State to the Japan. Furnace bridges are drawn up with Bouddha in each Japanese house.
the emperor of the Japan Tenmu decides to build a city-capital according to a master line with geometrical grid. The Court must settle there as well as the various wheels of the governments civil, religious, central and provincial. A network of road connecting the provinces to the capital is envisaged.
Land reform with the Japan conceived according to the Chinese principle of alternation: the grounds assigned to the culture of the annual plants turn regularly, so that the same farmers always do not profit from the best fields. Land registers are established on a village scale, the population is listed and of the precarious batches are allotted according to the number of mouth to be nourished. This system allows a better profitability of the tax, the men having to provide cereals and the women of the silk rollers.

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