631

Calendar overview 631

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631
The Great Queen Boran of Persia is murdered. Her sister Azarmeducht succeeds her on the throne.
631 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	79/80 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	623/624
Buddhist calendar	1174/75 (southern Buddhism); 1173/74 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	55th (56th) cycle Year of the metal rabbit辛卯 ( at the beginning of the year metal tiger 庚寅)
Islamic calendar	9/10 (turn of the year 8/9 April)
Jewish calendar	4391/92 (September 1st and 2nd)
Coptic calendar	347/348
Roman calendar	from urbe condita MCCCLXXXIV (1384) Diocletian's era : 347/348 (New Year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 941/942 (April) Syria: 942/943 (October)
Spanish era	669
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	687/688 (turn of the year April)

Events

March 26th : After an aristocratic revolution, Suinthila in Saragossa has to abdicate as King of the Visigoths . Immediately thereafter at the same place, the rebel leader Sisenand , supported by the Frankish King Dagobert I , was elected as his successor .

Gold coin with the image of Dagobert I.

Frankish king Dagobert I from the Merovingian dynasty begins a campaign against the Slav ruler Samo , but is defeated at Wogastisburg . In the campaign also takes Alemanni Duke Chrodobert part. The situation on the border with the Slavs remains tense, but Dagobert secures the border area through agreements with the Saxons and the Thuringians . Nevertheless, he comes under criticism for the defeat among parts of the Franconian nobility.

The Kingdom of East Anglia in the early Anglo-Saxon period

630 /631: After the death of the pagan king Ricbert of East Anglia versa Sigebert , the half-brother of the exiled of Ricbert rightful king Eorpwald in his country back, will be the new king and promotes the Mission through the Missionary Felix , who in Dunwich built a bishopric .
Charibert II. , Frankish part King in Aquitaine , subjecting the Basque Country (631/ 632 ).

After her murder , the first Persian Great Queen Boran , who ruled for a year, was succeeded by her sister Azarmeducht . General Farruch Hormizd , who has been the de facto ruler in the north for several years, would like to extend his power to the southern part of the pond and makes a proposal to the new queen. However, this lets him murder, whereupon his son Rostam Farrochzād sets out to besiege the capital Seleukia-Ctesiphon with an army .

Emblem glyph of Calakmul

The Maya -State Calakmul coat with the help of Caracol the nearby Naranjo , which has attempted to break away from the hegemony of Calakmul, and deported its ruler.

In the Chinese Empire it is discovered that the tail of a comet is always turned away from the sun .

Cyrus becomes patriarch of Alexandria ; he is the last patriarch there under Christian rule.