632

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This article is about the year 632. For the number, see 632 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	600s 610s 620s – 630s – 640s 650s 660s
Years:	629 630 631 – 632 – 633 634 635

632 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
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632 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	632 DCXXXII
Ab urbe condita	1385
Armenian calendar	81 ԹՎ ՁԱ
Assyrian calendar	5382
Bahá'í calendar	−1212 – −1211
Bengali calendar	39
Berber calendar	1582
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1176
Burmese calendar	−6
Byzantine calendar	6140–6141
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3328 or 3268 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3329 or 3269
Coptic calendar	348–349
Discordian calendar	1798
Ethiopian calendar	624–625
Hebrew calendar	4392–4393
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	688–689
- Shaka Samvat	554–555
- Kali Yuga	3733–3734
Holocene calendar	10632
Igbo calendar	−368 – −367
Iranian calendar	10–11
Islamic calendar	10–11
Japanese calendar	N/A
Juche calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	632 DCXXXII
Korean calendar	2965
Minguo calendar	1280 before ROC 民前1280年
Thai solar calendar	1175
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Year 632 (DCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 632 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

April 8 – King Charibert II is assassinated at Blaye (Gironde)—possibly on orders of his half-brother Dagobert I—along with his infant son. He claims Aquitaine and Gascony, becoming the most powerful Merovingian king in the West.
Kubrat, ruler of the Dulo clan,^[1] establishes the confederation of Great Bulgaria. He takes power over his tribe, the Utigur Bulgars, and expels the Avars from his lands. Kubrat's rule stretches from the Danube Delta to the Volga River.

June 16 – Yazdegerd III, age 8, ascends to the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sassanid Dynasty (modern Iran).

Ridda Wars: Abu Bakr launches a series of military campaigns against rebel Arabian tribes to re-establish the power of the Rightly Guided Caliphs and to secure Muhammad's legacy.
September – Battle of Buzakha: An Islamic column (6,000 men) under Khalid ibn al-Walid defeat the Apostate rebels under Tulayha near Ha'il (Saudi Arabia).
December – Battle of Aqraba: Muslim forces of Abu Bakr defeat the Apostate rebels (40,000 men) under Musaylimah on the plain of Aqraba.

March 9 – Friday, 9 Zulhijja, 10 AH, The Last Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') delivered by Muhammad, Islamic prophet, in the Uranah valley of Mount Arafat to the Muslims who has accompanied him for the Hajj (pilgrimage).
June 8 – Muhammad dies in Medina, at the age of 61, and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph (viceregent of the messenger of God). He establishes the Rashidun Caliphate until 661.
Xuanzang, Chinese traveler, writes about two huge statues of Buddha carved out of a mountainside in the Bamiyan Valley (Afghanistan).

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