650

Year 650 (DCL) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 650 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:
650 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar650
DCL
Ab urbe condita1403
Armenian calendar99
ԹՎ ՂԹ
Assyrian calendar5400
Balinese saka calendar571–572
Bengali calendar57
Berber calendar1600
Buddhist calendar1194
Burmese calendar12
Byzantine calendar6158–6159
Chinese calendar己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
3346 or 3286
     to 
庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
3347 or 3287
Coptic calendar366–367
Discordian calendar1816
Ethiopian calendar642–643
Hebrew calendar4410–4411
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat706–707
 - Shaka Samvat571–572
 - Kali Yuga3750–3751
Holocene calendar10650
Iranian calendar28–29
Islamic calendar29–30
Japanese calendarTaika 6 / Hakuchi 1
(白雉元年)
Javanese calendar541–542
Julian calendar650
DCL
Korean calendar2983
Minguo calendar1262 before ROC
民前1262年
Nanakshahi calendar−818
Seleucid era961/962 AG
Thai solar calendar1192–1193
Tibetan calendar阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
776 or 395 or −377
     to 
阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
777 or 396 or −376
The Khazar Khaganate (650–850)

Events

Europe

  • The Khazar Khaganate extends from the Dnieper to the Caspian Sea, and establishes the city, Itil, as its capital on the shore of the Caspian. Northward it extends to the headwaters of the Volga. Their rulers accept the Jewish religion, apparently to assert their independence from both Muslims and Christians (approximate date).
  • A Rashidun army under Abd ar-Rahman ibn Rabiah is annihilated by the Khazars, near the city of Balanjar (Northern Caucasus). During the battle, both sides use catapults against the other (approximate date).

Britain

  • The Mercians under King Penda move on East Anglia, destroy the monastery at Burgh Castle and expel King Anna who probably flees to Magonsæte (approximate date).
  • King Oswiu of Bernicia seeks Irish support against the forces of Penda. While in Ireland he has a liaison with Fín, the granddaughter of King Colmán Rímid Uí Néill (approximate date).
  • King Cloten of Dyfed (Southern Wales) marries Princess Ceindrech of Brycheiniog, and unites the two kingdoms (approximate date).

Asia

  • The first Chinese paper money is issued,[1] yet these banknotes will not become government-issued until the Song Dynasty era Sichuan province issues them in the year 1024, with the central government of China following suit in the 12th century.
  • Emperor Kōtoku is presented a white pheasant; he is pleased and begins a new Japanese era name (nengō) to be called Hakuchi, meaning 'The White Pheasant'.

Americas

  • Earliest confirmed date of habitation in the area around what is now Bluff, Utah by humans.[2]
  • Yuknoom the Great, ruler of Calakmul, attacks Dos Pilas and forces its leader, B'alaj Chan K'awiil, and a likely heir to the throne of Tikal, to take refuge at Aguateca, beginning the Second Tikal-Calakmul War.
  • Jamaica is settled by the Ostinoid people, ancestors of the Taíno. They were farmers, potters, and villagers with socially complex societies. These people lived near the coast and extensively hunted turtles and fish.[3]

Oceania

  • According to legend, the Polynesian traveller Ui-te-Rangiora sailed south into the Southern Ocean where they sighted ice floes and icebergs, eventually naming the area Te tai-uka-a-pia.

Religion

Art and science

  • The panel of the Tamamushi Shrine, the so called "Hungry Tigress Jataka", is made during the Asuka period (Japan). It is now kept at Horyu-ji Treasure House (approximate date).

Births

  • Anastasia, Byzantine empress (approximate date)
  • Dagobert II, king of Austrasia (approximate date)
  • Frithuswith, Anglo-Saxon abbess (approximate date)
  • Giles, Frankish abbot (approximate date)
  • Jarir ibn Atiyah, Arab poet and satirist (approximate date)
  • Sergius I, pope of Rome (approximate date)
  • Shen Quanqi, Chinese poet and official (approximate date)
  • Werburgh, Anglo-Saxon princess (approximate date)
  • Yao Chong, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 721)

Deaths

  • Candrakīrti, Indian Madhyamaka philosopher (approximate date)
  • Chen Yueyi, empress of Northern Zhou (approximate date)
  • Ferchar mac Connaid, king of Dál Riata (modern Scotland)
  • Fursey, Irish missionary (approximate date)

References

  1. Roberts 1994.
  2. "Bluff Town History - Bluff, Utah".
  3. Atkinson, Lesley-Gail (2006). "Introduction". The Earliest Inhabitants: The Dynamics of the Jamaican Taíno. Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-976-640-149-8.

Sources

  • Roberts, J.M. (1994). History of the World. Penguin.
The Mediterranean world in 650
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