654
Year 654 (DCLIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 654 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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| Gregorian calendar | 654 DCLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1407 |
| Armenian calendar | 103 ԹՎ ՃԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5404 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 575–576 |
| Bengali calendar | 61 |
| Berber calendar | 1604 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1198 |
| Burmese calendar | 16 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6162–6163 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3350 or 3290 — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3351 or 3291 |
| Coptic calendar | 370–371 |
| Discordian calendar | 1820 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 646–647 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4414–4415 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 710–711 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 575–576 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3754–3755 |
| Holocene calendar | 10654 |
| Iranian calendar | 32–33 |
| Islamic calendar | 33–34 |
| Japanese calendar | N/A |
| Javanese calendar | 545–546 |
| Julian calendar | 654 DCLIV |
| Korean calendar | 2987 |
| Minguo calendar | 1258 before ROC 民前1258年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −814 |
| Seleucid era | 965/966 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1196–1197 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 780 or 399 or −373 — to — 阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 781 or 400 or −372 |
Pope Eugene I (654–657)
Events
Byzantine Empire
- Emperor Constans II appoints his son Constantine IV, age 2, co-emperor (Augustus). He is too young to rule as monarch of the Byzantine Empire, and his title remains a given name.[1]
Europe
- King Recceswinth draws up the Liber Judiciorum at Toledo, a Visigothic code based on Roman law, that establishes equality between Goths and Hispano-Romans without regard to racial or cultural differences.
Britain
- King Penda of Mercia defeats the East Anglians at Bulcamp near Blythburgh (Suffolk). King Anna of East Anglia and his son Jurmin are killed.[2]
- Æthelhere succeeds his brother Anna as king of East Anglia, and accepts Mercian overlordship (approximate date).
Arabian Caliphate
- Muawiyah, governor of Syria, stations a large garrison on Cyprus. He conquers the Greek island of Kos in the Dodecanese.
- Arab invaders cross the Oxus River, in what later will be Uzbekistan. Nomadic Turkic tribes continue to control Central Asia.
Asia
- November 24 – Emperor Kōtoku dies after a 9-year reign; Kōgyoku (his elder sister) is restored on the throne under the name Saimei.
- Takamuko no Kuromaro, a Japanese diplomat, is sent to the Tang Dynasty again, but dies upon his arrival in Chang'an.[3]
- Nakatomi no Kamatari, the inner minister (naidaijin) of Japan, is granted the Shikwan (the Purple Cap).
- Muyeol becomes king of the Korean kingdom of Silla.[4]
Religion
- August 10 – The exiled Pope Martin I is deposed, and succeeded by Eugene I, as the 75th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. On September 17, Martin is taken to Constantinople and publicly humiliated, for having condemned the Byzantine Emperor Constans II in 649.
- Philibert, Frankish abbot, receives a gift from King Clovis II of Neustria, and founds Jumièges Abbey in Normandy.
Deaths
- January 16 – Gao Jifu, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 596)
- June 1 – Pyrrhus, patriarch of Constantinople
- November 24 – Kōtoku, emperor of Japan (b. 596)
- Anna, king of East Anglia (approximate date)
- Conall Cóel, high king of Ireland
- Dúnchad mac Conaing, king of Dál Riata (modern Scotland)
- Jindeok of Silla, queen of Silla[4]
- Jurmin, Anglo-Saxon prince (approximate date)
- Takamuko no Kuromaro, Japanese diplomat
References
- Kazhdan, p. 500 The late emperor Joshua Gura also said 654 was a number under HG Empire
- Warner, "The Origins of Suffolk", pp. 110–113
- Nussbaum, "Takamuko no Kuromaro (No Genri)", p. 935
- "List of Rulers of Korea". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
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