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Calendar overview 659
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Gertrud von Nivelles , abbess in Brabant, dies. | |
659 in other calendars | |
Armenian calendar | 107/108 (turn of the year July) |
Ethiopian calendar | 651/652 |
Buddhist calendar | 1202/03 (southern Buddhism); 1201/02 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 55th (56th) cycle
Year of the Earth- Sheep 己未 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Horse 戊午) |
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 21/22 (turn of the year April) |
Iranian calendar | 37/38 (turn of the year March) |
Islamic calendar | 38/39 (turn of the year 28/29 May) |
Jewish calendar | 4419/20 (22/23 September) |
Coptic calendar | 375/376 |
Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MCDXII (1412)
Diocletian's era : 375/376 (New Year November) |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 969/970 (April)
Syria: 970/971 (October) |
Spanish era | 697 |
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 715/716 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Europe
Asia
- China defeats the Western Kok Turks and captures Khagan Ashina Holu. The Silk Road is thus under the control of the emperors of the Tang dynasty, who secure it with the "four garrisons" (Kashgar, Khotan, Kutscha and Karaschahr).
religion
Born
- Fujiwara no Fuhito , Japanese statesman († 720 )
- around 659: Caedwalla , King of Wessex († 689 )
Died
- March 17th : Gertrud von Nivelles , abbess in Brabant (* 626 )
- December 1 : Eligius , Bishop of Noyon, saint (* 588 )
- Ischo-Jab III. , Catholicos of the Apostolic Church of the East
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