Decades: 640s 650s 660s 670s 680s - 690s - 700s 710s 720s 730s 740s

Years: 685 686 687 688 689 - 690 - 691 692 693 694 695

• Beginning of Wu Zetian's Zhou Dynasty in China.
• Building of the Dome of the Rock

• Pelayo, first king of Asturias. (+ 737)

• Theodore of Tarsus, archbishop of Canterbury