629

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	590s 600s 610s – 620s – 630s 640s 650s
Years:	626 627 628 – 629 – 630 631 632

629 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

629 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	629 DCXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1382
Armenian calendar	78 ԹՎ ՀԸ
Assyrian calendar	5379
Bengali calendar	36
Berber calendar	1579
Buddhist calendar	1173
Burmese calendar	−9
Byzantine calendar	6137–6138
Chinese calendar	戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3325 or 3265 — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3326 or 3266
Coptic calendar	345–346
Discordian calendar	1795
Ethiopian calendar	621–622
Hebrew calendar	4389–4390
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	685–686
- Shaka Samvat	551–552
- Kali Yuga	3730–3731
Holocene calendar	10629
Iranian calendar	7–8
Islamic calendar	7–8
Japanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	629 DCXXIX
Korean calendar	2962
Minguo calendar	1283 before ROC 民前1283年
Seleucid era	940/941 AG
Thai solar calendar	1171–1172

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Year 629 (DCXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 629 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

September 14 – Emperor Heraclius enters Constantinople in triumph. In a ceremonial parade, accompanied by the True Cross, he is welcomed by the citizens and his son Heraclius Constantine.
September – Jerusalem is reconquered by the Byzantines (after 15 years of occupation) from the Persian Empire.^[1] The war ends and a new "Golden Age" begins for the Byzantine Empire.^[2]
Heraclius styles himself as Basileus, Greek word for "sovereign", and takes the ancient title of "King of Kings" after his victory over Persia.

King Chlothar II dies after a 16-year reign and is succeeded by his son Dagobert I. Counseled by bishop Arnulf of Metz and Pepin of Landen (Mayor of the Palace) he moves the capital to Paris.
Charibert II, half-brother of Dagobert I, becomes king of Aquitaine (Southern France) and establishes his capital at Toulouse. Charibert's realm includes also, Agen, Cahors, and Périgueux.

Battle of Fid Eoin: King Connad Cerr of Dál Riata (modern Scotland) is defeated by Dál nAraidi, ruler of Cruthin (Ireland) (approximate date).

April 27 – Shahrbaraz usurps the throne of the Sasanian Empire from Ardashir III but is himself deposed forty days later by nobility in favour of Borandukht.
Summer – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, succeeds in unifying all of the nomadic tribes of the Arabian Peninsula. He converts them to Islam and prepares an expedition against the Jews.
Battle of Khaybar: Muhammad and his followers defeat the Jews living in the fortified oasis at Khaybar, located 150 kilometers from Medina.
Battle of Mu'tah: Muhammad fails to take the lands east of the Jordan River and is pushed back near Mu'tah by the Ghassanids.

Winter – Emperor Tai Zong of the Tang Dynasty launches an campaign against the Eastern Turkic Khaganate (Central Asia).
Emperor Jomei succeeds his great aunt, empress Suiko, and ascends to the throne of Japan.

The Maya military outpost of Dos Pilas (Guatemala) is founded in order to control trade routes in the Petexbatún region.

Xuanzang, Chinese Buddhist monk, sets out for India from the Tang Dynasty capital Chang'an on a pilgrimage.
Muhammad meets Al-Khansa, Arabic poet, and converts her to Islam.

↑ Rodney Aist, "The Christian Topography of Early Islamic Jerusalem", Brepols Publishers (2009), p. 59
↑ Bury 2008, p. 245