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Instance of
year
Part of
680s
Followed by
689
Follows
687
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category for births in this time period
Category:688 births
category for deaths in this time period
Category:688 deaths
Commons category
688
topic's main category
Category:688
point in time
0688-01-01

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King Cunipert of the Lombards (688–700)

Year 688 (DCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 688 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.

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