635

Year 635 (DCXXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 635 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.

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635 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar635
DCXXXV
Ab urbe condita1388
Armenian calendar84
ԹՎ ՁԴ
Assyrian calendar5385
Balinese saka calendar556–557
Bengali calendar42
Berber calendar1585
Buddhist calendar1179
Burmese calendar−3
Byzantine calendar6143–6144
Chinese calendar甲午年 (Wood Horse)
3331 or 3271
     to 
乙未年 (Wood Goat)
3332 or 3272
Coptic calendar351–352
Discordian calendar1801
Ethiopian calendar627–628
Hebrew calendar4395–4396
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat691–692
 - Shaka Samvat556–557
 - Kali Yuga3735–3736
Holocene calendar10635
Iranian calendar13–14
Islamic calendar13–14
Japanese calendarN/A
Javanese calendar525–526
Julian calendar635
DCXXXV
Korean calendar2968
Minguo calendar1277 before ROC
民前1277年
Nanakshahi calendar−833
Seleucid era946/947 AG
Thai solar calendar1177–1178
Tibetan calendar阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
761 or 380 or −392
     to 
阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
762 or 381 or −391
Ruins of Lindisfarne Abbey founded by Aidan

Events

Byzantine Empire

Europe

  • Judicaël, high king of Domnonée (Brittany), visits King Dagobert I at his palace in Clichy (northwest of Paris), to promise he will remain under Frankish lordship. The Breton king arrives with gifts, but insults Dagobert by refusing to eat at the royal table.[1]

Britain

  • King Meurig of Glywysing and Gwent invades Ergyng (Archenfield), and reunites the two Welsh kingdoms (approximate date).
  • King Gartnait III dies after a 4-year reign, and is succeeded by his brother Bridei II, as ruler of the Picts.

Arabia

  • January Battle of Fahl: The Rashidun army, (30,000 men) under Khalid ibn al-Walid (known as the "Drawn Sword of God"), defeats the Byzantine forces led by Theodore Trithyrius, at Pella in the Jordan Valley (Jordan).
  • Gaza is conquered by the Muslim Arabs under 'Amr ibn al-'As. It becomes the first city in Palestine developed into a centre of Islamic law.

Literature

  • Yao Silian, Chinese historian, completes his Book of Liang. It contains the history of the Liang Dynasty.

Religion

Births

  • Benedict II, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 685)
  • John V, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 686)
  • K'inich Kan B'alam II, ruler of Palenque (d. 702)
  • Pepin of Herstal, Mayor of the Palace (approximate date)
  • Yijing, Chinese Buddhist monk and traveler (d. 713)

Deaths

References

  1. Smith, Julia M. H. (1992). Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians. Cambridge University Press. pp. 19, 21. ISBN 978-0-521-03030-4.
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