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Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

642 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	642 DCXLII
Ab urbe condita	1395
Armenian calendar	91 ԹՎ ՂԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-1202 – -1201
Buddhist calendar	1186
Chinese calendar	3278/3338-11-25 (辛丑年十一月廿五日) — to — 3279/3339-12-5 (壬寅年十二月初五日)
Ethiopian calendar	634 – 635
Hebrew calendar	4402 – 4403
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	697 – 698
- Shaka Samvat	564 – 565
- Kali Yuga	3743 – 3744
Holocene calendar	10642
Iranian calendar	20 – 21
Islamic calendar	21 – 22
Japanese calendar
- Imperial Year	Kōki 1302 (皇紀1302年)
- Jōmon Era	10642
Julian calendar	687
Korean calendar	2975
Thai solar calendar	1185
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[edit] Events

[edit] By Place

[edit] Europe

• August 5 - In the Battle of Maserfield, Penda king of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald, king of Bernicia.
• Batbayan succeeds Kubrat as ruler of the Bulgars (approximate date).

[edit] Africa

• Arabs invade Nubia for the first time; they will do so again in 652.

[edit] Asia

• Battle of Nehawand: Arabs conquer Persia.
• Empress Kōgyoku ascends to the throne of Japan.
• Yeon Gaesomun seizes power over the Goguryeo kingdom and places King Bojang on the throne.

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[edit] Arts and Sciences

• Earliest surviving dated Arabic papyrus, PERF 558, and earliest known Arabic text with diacritical marks is written.

[edit] Religion

• November 24 - Pope Theodore I succeeds Pope John IV as the 73rd pope.
• Monastic settlement founded in Hampshire, England, which later becomes Winchester Cathedral.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• August 5 - Oswald, king of Bernicia and Bretwalda
• October 12 - Pope John IV
• Khalid bin Walid, Muslim general, conqueror of Damascus and Syria
• King Yeongnyu of Goguryeo