665

Year 665 (DCLXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 665 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
665 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar665
DCLXV
Ab urbe condita1418
Armenian calendar114
ԹՎ ՃԺԴ
Assyrian calendar5415
Balinese saka calendar586–587
Bengali calendar72
Berber calendar1615
Buddhist calendar1209
Burmese calendar27
Byzantine calendar6173–6174
Chinese calendar甲子年 (Wood Rat)
3361 or 3301
     to 
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
3362 or 3302
Coptic calendar381–382
Discordian calendar1831
Ethiopian calendar657–658
Hebrew calendar4425–4426
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat721–722
 - Shaka Samvat586–587
 - Kali Yuga3765–3766
Holocene calendar10665
Iranian calendar43–44
Islamic calendar44–45
Japanese calendarN/A
Javanese calendar556–557
Julian calendar665
DCLXV
Korean calendar2998
Minguo calendar1247 before ROC
民前1247年
Nanakshahi calendar−803
Seleucid era976/977 AG
Thai solar calendar1207–1208
Tibetan calendar阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
791 or 410 or −362
     to 
阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
792 or 411 or −361
Icon of Wilfrid (c. 633–c.709)

Events

Europe

Britain

  • Conflict erupts between King Sighere of Essex and his brother Sæbbi, as they struggle for overlordship between Mercia and Wessex.

Arabian Empire

  • Muslim Conquest: An Arab army (40,000 men) advances through the desert and captures the Byzantine city of Barca (Libya).

Asia

  • The city of Seongnam (South Korea) is renamed Hansanju (approximate date).
  • Wu Zetian, the wife of the Chinese emperor, unofficially becomes an absolute ruler by eliminating her political rivals.

Religion

  • Wilfrid, Anglo-Saxon abbot, refuses to be consecrated in Northumbria as bishop, and travels to Compiègne (France) to be consecrated by Agilbert, archbishop of Paris.[1]
  • Jaruman, bishop of Mercia, is dispatched with Christian missionaries to reconvert Saxon tribes, which have returned to paganism.[2]
  • According to the Annales Cambriae, the Anglo-Saxons convert to Christianity after the Second Battle of Badon.
  • Sighere encourages his subjects to reject Christianity and return to their indigenous religion (approximate date).

Science

Births

  • Ōtomo no Tabito, Japanese poet (d. 729)
  • Sa'id ibn Jubayr, Muslim scholar (d. 714)

Deaths

References

  1. Mayr-Harting 1991, pp. 129–147.
  2. Mayr-Harting 1991, p. 117.
  3. Glick, Thomas F.; Livesey, Steven; Wallis, Faith, eds. (2014). Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 464. ISBN 978-1-135-45939-0.

Sources

  • Mayr-Harting, Henry (1991). The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 0-271-00769-9.
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