636

Year 636 (DCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 636 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:
636 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar636
DCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita1389
Armenian calendar85
ԹՎ ՁԵ
Assyrian calendar5386
Balinese saka calendar557–558
Bengali calendar43
Berber calendar1586
Buddhist calendar1180
Burmese calendar−2
Byzantine calendar6144–6145
Chinese calendar乙未年 (Wood Goat)
3332 or 3272
     to 
丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
3333 or 3273
Coptic calendar352–353
Discordian calendar1802
Ethiopian calendar628–629
Hebrew calendar4396–4397
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat692–693
 - Shaka Samvat557–558
 - Kali Yuga3736–3737
Holocene calendar10636
Iranian calendar14–15
Islamic calendar14–15
Japanese calendarN/A
Javanese calendar526–527
Julian calendar636
DCXXXVI
Korean calendar2969
Minguo calendar1276 before ROC
民前1276年
Nanakshahi calendar−832
Seleucid era947/948 AG
Thai solar calendar1178–1179
Tibetan calendar阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
762 or 381 or −391
     to 
阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
763 or 382 or −390

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor Heraclius assembles a large army consisting of contingents of Byzantines, Slavs, Franks, Georgians, Armenians, and Christian Arabs. He establishes a base at Yaqusah (near Gadara), close to the edge of the Golan Heights, protecting the vital main road from Egypt to Damascus. The base is protected by deep valleys and precipitous cliffs, well supplied with water and grazing.[1]
  • Summer Heraclius summons a church assembly at Antioch, and scrutinises the situation. He accepts the argument that Byzantine disobedience to God is to blame for the Christian disaster in Syria. Heraclius leaves for Constantinople with the words, ‘Peace be with you Syria — what a beautiful land you will be for your enemy’.[2]

Central America

  • April 28 Yuknoom Chʼeen II becomes the ruler of the Mayan city state of Calakmul in southern Mexico and reigns for 50 years until his death in 686.

Europe

  • Chintila is elected by a convention of bishops and nobles (in accordance with the 75th canon of the Fourth Council of Toledo) as ruler of the Visigoths, after the death of King Sisenand.
  • Rothari (formerly duke of Brescia) marries widowed Queen Gundeberga, and succeeds Arioald as king of the Lombards. During his reign, he puts many insubordinate nobles to death.

Arabia

Asia

Literature

  • The historical texts of the Book of Northern Qi, Book of Chen, and Book of Sui are compiled in China, during the Tang Dynasty.

Religion

  • Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester, converts Cwichelm (son of king Cynegils of Wessex)[6] to Christianity. He dies soon afterward, and is supposedly buried at Scutchamer Knob, in East Hendred (South East England).
  • June 30 Fifth Council of Toledo: Chintila orders a meeting in the church of St. Leocadia; the bishops accept a decree that only Gothic nobility (with military functions) may be king of the Visigothic Kingdom.

Births

  • Æthelthryth, Anglo-Saxon princess (approximate date)
  • Lambert of Maastricht, bishop (approximate date)

Deaths

  • April 4 Isidore of Seville, archbishop and scholar
  • Arioald, king of the Lombards
  • Bahman Jadhuyih, Persian general
  • Dervan, prince of the Sorbs
  • Ecgric, king of East Anglia (approximate date)
  • Cwichelm, king of Wessex (approximate date)
  • George Pisida, Byzantine poet (approximate date)
  • Jalinus, Armenian nobleman
  • Rostam Farrokhzād, Persian general (or 637)
  • Sa'd ibn Ubadah, companion of Muhammad (approximate date)
  • Sisenand, king of the Visigoths
  • Theodore Trithyrius, Byzantine general (sacellarius)
  • Zhangsun, empress of the Tang dynasty (b. 601)

References

  1. Nicolle 1994, p. 44.
  2. Nicolle 2009, p. 51.
  3. Nicolle 1994, p. 43.
  4. Nafziger, George F.; Walton, Mark W. (2003). Islam at War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing. p. 30. ISBN 0-275-98101-0.
  5. Nicolle 1994, pp. 6, 19.
  6. Kirby 2000, p. 51.

Sources

  • Kirby, D. P. (2000). The Earliest English Kings (revised ed.). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24211-8.
  • Nicolle, David (1994). Yarmuk 636 AD: The Muslim conquest of Syria. London: Osprey. ISBN 1-85532-414-8.
  • Nicolle, David (2009). The Great Islamic Conquests AD 632–750. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-84603-273-8.
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