Timeline November 683

Events in November 683 3

• 645 – 683 Yazid I (645-683) Died 11 November 683, aged 38 Yazid ibn Muawiya was the second Umayyad caliph, succeeding his father Muawiya I in 680. His reign was dominated by the Second Fitna, including the killing of Husayn ibn Ali at Karbala and the suppression of revolts in Medina and Mecca. He died at Huwwarin in Syria, triggering a succession crisis that his young son Muawiya II could not resolve.
• 683 Siege of Mecca Umayyad forces besiege Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr in the holy city Following the sack of Medina, Umayyad general al-Husayn ibn Numayr al-Sakuni marched on Mecca to suppress the rival caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr. During the siege the Kaaba was damaged and partly burned, either by catapult fire or an overturned lamp. News of Yazid I's death in November reached the besieging army and the siege was abandoned.
• 683 Thirteenth Council of Toledo Visigothic church council restores property and rank to exiled nobles Convened by King Erwig in the Visigothic capital, the council addressed the political fallout from the deposition of King Wamba in 680. It restored lands, titles, and civil status to nobles who had been stripped of them and exiled under Wamba, formalizing Erwig's reconciliation with the Visigothic aristocracy.