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Events

By Place

Asia

• Wu Ze Tian takes power in China.
• The Ummayad caliph Muawiya II is succeeded by Marwan I.
• September 7 — A large comet is observed in Japan (it's Japan's oldest observation record of the Halley's Comet).
• November 13 — Emperor Temmu institutes eight titles of eight classes (Yakusa-no-kabane) in Japan.
• November 26 — A great earthquake strikes Japan. The people, houses, temples, shrines and domestic animals are greatly damaged.

Americas

• 10 January — K'inich Kan B'alam II accedes to the rulership of the Maya polity of Palenque.

By Topic

Religion

• June 26 — Pope Benedict II succeeds Pope Leo II as the 81st pope.

Births

• Gao Lishi, Chinese official and court eunuch (d. 762)
• Tachibana no Moroe, Japanese prince and minister (d. 757)

Deaths

• Luo Binwang, Chinese poet and official (born c. 640)
• Li Xian
• November 30 - Pei Yan, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty

Heads of state

• Holy See — Benedict II pope (684–685)
• Japan — Emperor Temmu, emperor of Japan (672–686)af:684

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