What Happened In The Year 680?
What Happened In The Year 680? What happened in the year 680? Yazid I, son of Muawiyah I, becomes the sixth caliph (second Umayyad caliph) but Kufans in Mesopotamia rebel and invite Hussein ibn Ali (grandson of Muhammad) to take the throne. October 10 – Battle of Karbala: Forces under Yazid I kill Hussein ibn