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Calendar overview 639
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The Arabs destroy the ancient city of Susa as they advance in the Sassanid Empire .
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Armenian calendar | 87/88 (turn of the year July) |
Ethiopian calendar | 631/632 |
Buddhist calendar | 1182/83 (southern Buddhism); 1181/82 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 55th (56th) cycle
Year of the Earth-Pig己亥 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Dog 戊戌) |
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 1/2 (turn of the year April) |
Islamic calendar | 17/18 (turn of the year 11/12 January) |
Jewish calendar | 4399/4400 (September 3-4) |
Coptic calendar | 355/356 |
Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MCCCXCII (1392)
Diocletian's era : 355/356 (turn of the year November) |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 949/950 (April)
Syria: 950/951 (October) |
Spanish era | 677 |
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 695/696 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Islamic expansion
- Islamic conquest of the Levant : Muʿāwiya from the Umayyad clan is appointed governor of Syria by Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab and rises to become one of the most powerful men in the caliphate .
- The Arabs invade Christian Egypt with 9,000 men under the command of ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀs .
- The Arabs destroy the ancient city of Susa as they advance in the Sassanid Empire . They also conquer the Mesopotamian city of Dara-Anastasiupolis .
Europe
- January 19 : After the death of the Frankish King Dagobert I , his son Clovis II follows him in Neustria and Burgundy . Clovis's brother Sigibert III is in Austrasia . King since 633 . Since both Sigibert (9 years) and Clovis (6 years) are still minors, the administration of the Reich is in the hands of Dagobert's widow Nantechild and the caretaker Aegas ; The Carolingian Pippin the Elder and Arnulf von Metz also gain power.
- December 20 : Underage Tulga becomes the new King of the Visigoths after the death of his father Chintila . He is the first Visigoth king to be made co-regent during his father's lifetime not by a mere decision of the ruler, but by an act of electoral act.
First documentary mentions
- Leubsdorf am Rhein is mentioned for the first time in a document. In this document, Pippin the Elder gives his daughter Gertrud , the first abbess of the Nivelles monastery , places with vineyards, forests and fisheries. With this donation, Leubsdorf comes under the influence of the monastery.
society
- The Buddhist patriarch Buppasoranhan proclaims the year 1 in Sri Ksetra in what is now Myanmar , after he has left the monk and conquered the royal throne. The Chula Sakarat era begins.
nature and environment
- September 3rd : Total solar eclipse in England and Northern Germany
Born
- to 639: Aldhelm of Sherborne , Bishop of Sherborne, the first abbot of Malmesbury († 709 / 710 )
Died
- January 19 : Dagobert I , King of the Franks (* around 609 )
- November 27th : Acarius , Bishop of Tournai and Noyon, saint of the Catholic Church (* before 594 )
- December 20th : Chintila , King of the Visigoths
Web links
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