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Calendar overview 644
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Caliph ʿUmar ibn al-Chattāb is murdered. | |
644 in other calendars | |
Armenian calendar | 92/93 (turn of the year July) |
Ethiopian calendar | 636/637 |
Buddhist calendar | 1187/88 (southern Buddhism); 1186/87 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 55th (56th) cycle
Year of the wood dragon甲辰 ( at the beginning of the year water rabbit 癸卯) |
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 6/7 (turn of the year April) |
Iranian calendar | 22/23 (turn of the year March) |
Islamic calendar | 23/24 (turn of the year 6/7 November) |
Jewish calendar | 4404/05 (September 8/9) |
Coptic calendar | 360/361 |
Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MCCCXCVII (1397)
Diocletian's era : 360/361 (November turn of the year) |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 954/955 (April)
Syria: 955/956 (October) |
Spanish era | 682 |
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 700/701 (turn of the year April) |
Events
- ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān , a son-in-law of Mohammed , is elected third Muslim caliph after the murder of his predecessor ʿUmar ibn al-Chattāb in Medina .
Born
- July 27 : Ursmar von Lobbes , Benedictine abbot and saint († 713 )
- November 2 : K'inich K'an Joy Chitam II , ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque († around 721)
- Yazid I , second Umayyad caliph († 683 )
Died
- October 10 : Paulinus of York , first Bishop of York
- November 3 : Umar ibn al-Chattab , Caliph (* 592 )
- Valentinos , Byzantine general
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