648

Year 648 (DCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 648 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:
648 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar648
DCXLVIII
Ab urbe condita1401
Armenian calendar97
ԹՎ ՂԷ
Assyrian calendar5398
Balinese saka calendar569–570
Bengali calendar55
Berber calendar1598
Buddhist calendar1192
Burmese calendar10
Byzantine calendar6156–6157
Chinese calendar丁未年 (Fire Goat)
3344 or 3284
     to 
戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
3345 or 3285
Coptic calendar364–365
Discordian calendar1814
Ethiopian calendar640–641
Hebrew calendar4408–4409
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat704–705
 - Shaka Samvat569–570
 - Kali Yuga3748–3749
Holocene calendar10648
Iranian calendar26–27
Islamic calendar27–28
Japanese calendarTaika 4
(大化4年)
Javanese calendar539–540
Julian calendar648
DCXLVIII
Korean calendar2981
Minguo calendar1264 before ROC
民前1264年
Nanakshahi calendar−820
Seleucid era959/960 AG
Thai solar calendar1190–1191
Tibetan calendar阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
774 or 393 or −379
     to 
阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
775 or 394 or −378
Fang Xuanling (579–648)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Emperor Constans II issues an imperial edict forbidding Monothelitism to be discussed, to quiet the intense controversy caused by the Monothelete doctrine. This edict, distributed by patriarch Paul II in Constans' name, is known as the Typos.

Europe

  • King Sigebert II of Austrasia is advised by Remaclus to establish a double-monastery, at Stavelot and Malmedy. As a missionary bishop, he founds an abbey on the River Amblève (modern Belgium).

Britain

  • King Cenwalh of Wessex returns from a 3-year exile in East Anglia, to reclaim his kingdom. He gives 3,000 hides of land around Ashdown to his nephew Cuthred, possibly sub-king of Berkshire (England).
  • Cenwahl invites bishop Birinus to establish under his direction the Old Minster in Winchester. Together they have a small stone church built.[1]

Asia

  • Tang general Ashina She'er re-establishes Tang control of Karasahr, and leads a military campaign against the Tarim Basin kingdom of Kucha in Xinjiang, a vassal of the Western Turkic Khaganate.

Americas

  • In an early skirmish in the run up to the Second Tikal-Calakmul War, B'alaj Chan K'awiil scores a military victory, apparently over his half-brother, who had galled him by using the same royal emblem (or emblem glyph) as he did.
  • Dos Pilas breaks away from Tikal and becomes a vassal state of Calakmul.

Literature

  • The Book of Jin is compiled in China during the Tang Dynasty. Its chief editor is the chancellor Fang Xuanling, who dies in this year as well.

Religion

Births

  • Kōbun, emperor of Japan (d. 672)
  • Redbad, king of Frisia (d. 719)
  • Tōchi, Japanese princess (d. 678)

Deaths

  • Fang Xuanling, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 579)
  • John III of the Sedre, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.[2]
  • Ma Zhou, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 601)
  • Xiao, empress of the Sui Dynasty

References

  1. Kirby 2000, p. 45.
  2. Teule, Herman G. B. (2011). "Yuḥanon of the Sedre". In Sebastian P. Brock; Aaron M. Butts; George A. Kiraz; Lucas Van Rompay (eds.). Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition. Retrieved July 8, 2020.

Sources

  • Kirby, D. P. (2000). The Earliest English Kings (revised ed.). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24211-8.
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