640s

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Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 6th century7th century8th century
Decades: 610s 620s 630s640s650s 660s 670s
Years: 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 649
Categories: Births – Deaths – Architecture
Establishments – Disestablishments

This is a list of events occurring in the 640s, ordered by year.

Contents

  • 640
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  • 642
  • 643
  • 644
  • 645
  • 646
  • 647
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640

By place

Europe

Britain

Africa

Asia

By topic

Religion

641

By place

Byzantine Empire

Europe

Britain

Africa

Asia

642

By place

Byzantine Empire

Europe

Britain

Persia

Africa

Asia

By topic

Arts and sciences

Architecture

Religion

643

By place

Byzantine Empire

Europe

Britain

Persia

Africa

Asia

  • Chinese prefectural government officials travel to the capital of Chang'an to give the annual report of the affairs in their districts. Emperor Taizong discovers that many have no proper quarters to rest in, and are renting rooms with merchants. Therefore, Taizong orders the government agencies in charge of municipal construction to build every visiting official his own private mansion in the capital.
  • A Chinese embassy is sent to the North Indian Empire. They are invited by emperor Harsha who holds a Buddhist convocation at the capital Kannauj which is attended by 20 kings and thousands of pilgrims.[6]
  • Taizong commissions artist Yan Liben to paint in the Lingyan Pavilion the life-size portraits of 24 government officials to commemorate their service and contributions to the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

By topic

Religion

644

By place

Byzantine Empire

  • Valentinus, Byzantine general, attemps to usurp the throne of his son-in-law Constans II. He appears at the gates of Constantinople with a contingent of Byzantine troops and demands to be crowned emperor. His claim is rejected and Valentinus is lynched by the populace.[7]

Britain

Arabian Empire

Asia

645

By place

Byzantine Empire

Europe

Britain

Japan

China

By topic

Religion

646

By place

Byzantine Empire

Arabian Empire

Africa

China

Japan

By topic

Religion

647

By place

Byzantine Empire

Asia

By topic

Astronomy and science

Religion

648


By place

Byzantine Empire

  • Emperor Constans II, to quiet the intense controversy caused by the Monothelete doctrine, issues an imperial edict forbidding the subject to be discussed. This edict, distributed by patriarch Paul II in Constans' name, is known as the Typos.

Europe

Britain

Asia

By topic

Literature

Religion

649

By place

Byzantine Empire

Europe

Arabian Empire

China

Japan

By topic

Religion

Significant people

    Births

      Deaths

        References

        1. Butler, Alfred, "The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty years of Roman Dominion", p. 222
        2. Al Farooq, Umar by Muhammad Husayn Haykal, chapter nr. 21
        3. Hill, John E. (2003). "The Kingdom of Da Quin". The Western Regions according to the Hou Hanshu (2nd ed.). Retrieved 2008-11-30
        4. Reuter, p. 55
        5. Bede, "Ecclesiastical History", Book III, Chapter 15
        6. Watters, Thomas. "On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India". Two volumes. 1904–1905, Royal Asiatic Society, London. One volume reprint: Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi, 1973, pp. 343–344
        7. Winkelmann et al. 2001, p. 71
        8. Parker, Anselm. "St. Oswin". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 28 Mar. 2013
        9. Wechsler 1979, p. 226.
        10. The Caliphate Its Rise, Decline and Fall. Conquest of Egypt, Chapter XXII (p. 166)
        11. Graff, David A. (2002). "Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300–900". London: Routledge, p. 197. ISBN 9780415239554
        12. Lee, Kenneth B. (1997). Korea and East Asia: "The story of a phoenix". Westport: Praeger. p. 16. ISBN 9780275958237. 
        13. The Caliphate Its Rise, Decline and Fall by William Muir. Conquest of Egypt, Chapter XXII (p. 166)
        14. Kieschnick, John (2003). "The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture". Princeton University Press, p. 258. ISBN 0-691-09676-7
        15. Kirby, 2000, p. 45
        16. The Caliphate Its Rise, Decline and Fall by William Muir. Chapter XXVIII, Caliphate of Othman, p. 205
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