688

688 (DCLXXXVIII) was a leap year beginning on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, in effect on that date.

Events

• May 11: the fifteenth Council of Toledo begins.
• The reign of Ine de Wessex begins.

Births

• Jianzhen, Chinese Buddhist religious.
• Marwan II, Omeya caliph.

Deaths

• Wamba, king visigodo between 672 and 680.