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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 .
639 in other calendars
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

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 .

Gold coin with the image of Clovis II.

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.

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.

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.

to 639: Aldhelm of Sherborne , Bishop of Sherborne, the first abbot of Malmesbury († 709 / 710 )

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

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