662
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 630s 640s 650s – 660s – 670s 680s 690s |
| Years: | 659 660 661 – 662 – 663 664 665 |
| 662 by topic | |
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| Birth and death categories | |
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| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 662 DCLXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1415 |
| Armenian calendar | 111 ԹՎ ՃԺԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5412 |
| Bengali calendar | 69 |
| Berber calendar | 1612 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1206 |
| Burmese calendar | 24 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6170–6171 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3358 or 3298 — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3359 or 3299 |
| Coptic calendar | 378–379 |
| Discordian calendar | 1828 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 654–655 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4422–4423 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 718–719 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 584–585 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3763–3764 |
| Holocene calendar | 10662 |
| Iranian calendar | 40–41 |
| Islamic calendar | 41–42 |
| Japanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 662 DCLXII |
| Korean calendar | 2995 |
| Minguo calendar | 1250 before ROC 民前1250年 |
| Seleucid era | 973/974 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1204–1205 |
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Icon of Maximus the Confessor (c. 580–662)
Year 662 (DCLXII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 662 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
- King Godepert makes war against his brother Perctarit. He seeks aid of Grimoald I, duke of Benevento, who has him assassinated; his son Raginpert escapes. Grimoald usurps to the throne and becomes ruler of the Lombard Kingdom. Perctarit is exiled, and seeks refuge in Gaul and Britain.
- The Franks take advantage of the Lombard civil war and invade Northern Italy, but are defeated by Gromoald I. King Chlothar III gives Austrasia to his youngest brother Childeric II. He is raised on the shield of his warriors and proclaimed king of Austrasia.[1]
Britain
- King Swithelm of Essex is converted to Christianity and baptised by Cedd at the court of king Æthelwald of East Anglia who acts as his sponsor. East Anglia may have held some sort of overlordship over Essex at this time (approximate date).
Arabian Empire
- Muslim Conquest: Arab forces of the Umayyad Caliphate resume the push to capture Persian lands and begin to move towards the lands east and north of the plateau towards Greater Khorasan (Iran) and the Silk Road along Transoxiana.
- Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan, Muslim general and a member of the Umayyad clan, is appointed governor of Iraq (Basra) and the former Persian provinces (approximate date).
By topic
Religion
- August 13 – Maximus the Confessor, Byzantine monk and theologian, dies in exile in Lazica (modern Georgia) on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea.
Births
- Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Japanese poet (approximate date)
- Kusakabe, Japanese crown prince (d. 689)
- Odile of Alsace, Frankish abbess (approximate date)
- June 22 – Rui Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 716)
- Rumwold of Buckingham, Anglo-Saxon prince and saint
- Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn, Muslim martyr (b. 680)
Deaths
- Lai Ji, official of the Tang Dynasty (b. 610)
- Godepert, king of the Lombards
- August 13 – Maximus the Confessor, Byzantine theologian
- Rumwold of Buckingham, Anglo-Saxon prince and saint
References
- ↑ Patrick J. Geary, "Before France & Germany, the Creation & Transformation of the Merovingian World". (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 180