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Events

• An edict of the Taika Reforms is promulgated in Japan.
• Alexandria is recaptured by the Arabs after a Byzantine attempt to retake Egypt fails, ending nearly 10 centuries of Greaco-Roman civilization in Egypt.
• The Xueyantuo state is destroyed by the Chinese Tang Dynasty, ending Emperor Taizong's campaign against Xueyantuo.
• Japanese Emperor Kōtoku makes a decree about the policies of building tombs. He discontinues the old customs of sacrificing people in honor of a dead man. He forbids ill-considered rituals about purgation. He also issues an edict about the abolishment of laborers, the foundation of ranks and local government policies.

Births

• Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph
• Li Sujie
• Sun Guoting

Deaths

• Sulpitius the Pious, Bishop of Bourges
• Liu Ji, Chinese chancellor and poet of the Tang Dynasty
• Zhang Liang