675 Explained
Year 675 (DCLXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 675 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Europe
Britain
Asia
- 25-year-old poet Wang Bo (王勃) writes Tengwang Ge Xu, to celebrate the Tengwang Pavilion (approximate date).
- January 5 - In Japan, a platform to observe the stars for astrologers is erected for the first time.
- March 14 - Princess Tōchi and Princess Abe of Japan proceed to Ise Jingū.
- March 16 - Emperor Tenmu decrees the end of serfdom. He also orders an end to granting lands to Princes of the Blood, to Princes and to Ministers and Temples.
- May 8 - Tenmu issues a decree to distribute the tax-rice for peasants in poverty, as well as a decree regulating fishing and hunting, and ordering a halt to eating the flesh of cattle, horses, dogs, monkeys and barn-yard fowl, a prohibition which lasts until 1872.
- Some Japanese ministers who oppose Tenmu are banished to an isolated island. A man climbs the hill east of the Palace, curses the emperor and kills himself.
- September 16 - A typhoon strikes Japan.
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References
Sources
- Book: Walsh, Michael . 2007 . A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West . London . Burns & Oats . 978-0-86012-438-2.