Year in Japan
680 in Japanese History
5 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Asuka period (飛鳥時代, 538 – 710).
Era name: Hakuhō 白鳳 (year 20 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Izu Province 伊豆国 · Province of Japan — province of Japan
- Iga Province 伊賀国 · Province of Japan — province of Japan
- Genshō 元正天皇 · Politician — Empress of Japan (680-748)
- Fujiwara no Muchimaro 藤原武智麻呂 · Politician — Japanese politician of the Asuka and Nara periods (680-737)
- Yakushi-ji Temple 薬師寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan
Reading the year 680 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 680 corresponds to Hakuhō 白鳳 (year 20 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".
The year itself is read 680年 (680ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 7th century for its neighbours.