657
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 620s 630s 640s – 650s – 660s 670s 680s |
| Years: | 654 655 656 – 657 – 658 659 660 |
| 657 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 657 DCLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1410 |
| Armenian calendar | 106 ԹՎ ՃԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5407 |
| Bengali calendar | 64 |
| Berber calendar | 1607 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1201 |
| Burmese calendar | 19 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6165–6166 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3353 or 3293 — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3354 or 3294 |
| Coptic calendar | 373–374 |
| Discordian calendar | 1823 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 649–650 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4417–4418 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 713–714 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 579–580 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3758–3759 |
| Holocene calendar | 10657 |
| Iranian calendar | 35–36 |
| Islamic calendar | 36–37 |
| Japanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 657 DCLVII |
| Korean calendar | 2990 |
| Minguo calendar | 1255 before ROC 民前1255年 |
| Seleucid era | 968/969 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1199–1200 |
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Pope Vitalian (657–672)
Year 657 (DCLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 657 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
By place
Europe
- Grimoald the Elder, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, is deposed by Clovis II, king of Neustria. He captures his son Childebert the Adopted executing them both.
- Clovis II dies and is succeeded by his eldest son Chlothar III, age 5, who becomes king of Neustria and Burgundy under the regency of his mother Balthild.
Arabian Empire
- Battle of Siffin: Muslim forces under Ali ibn Abi-Taleb fight an inconclusive battle against Muawiyah, on the banks of the Euphrates, near Ar-Raqqah (Syria).
Asia
- Tang campaigns against the Western Turks: Emperor Gao Zong dispatches a military campaign led by Su Dingfang. He annexes the Western Turkic Khaganate.
- Gao Zong commissions the pharmacology publication of an official materia medica documenting the use of 833 different substances for medicinal purposes.
By topic
Religion
- June 1 – Pope Eugene I dies at Rome after a reign of nearly 2½ years. He is succeeded by Vitalian as the 76th pope.
- Hilda, Anglo-Saxon abbess, founds a monastery at Streaneshalch on the Yorkshire coast at Whitby (England).
Births
Deaths
- Childebert the Adopted, king (usurper) of Austrasia
- Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy (or 658)
- Grimoald the Elder, Mayor of the Palace (b. 616)
- November 12 – Livinus, Irish apostle
- June 1 – Pope Eugene I
- Talorgan I, king of the Picts