663

Year 663 (DCLXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 663 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:
663 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar663
DCLXIII
Ab urbe condita1416
Armenian calendar112
ԹՎ ՃԺԲ
Assyrian calendar5413
Balinese saka calendar584–585
Bengali calendar70
Berber calendar1613
Buddhist calendar1207
Burmese calendar25
Byzantine calendar6171–6172
Chinese calendar壬戌年 (Water Dog)
3359 or 3299
     to 
癸亥年 (Water Pig)
3360 or 3300
Coptic calendar379–380
Discordian calendar1829
Ethiopian calendar655–656
Hebrew calendar4423–4424
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat719–720
 - Shaka Samvat584–585
 - Kali Yuga3763–3764
Holocene calendar10663
Iranian calendar41–42
Islamic calendar42–43
Japanese calendarN/A
Javanese calendar554–555
Julian calendar663
DCLXIII
Korean calendar2996
Minguo calendar1249 before ROC
民前1249年
Nanakshahi calendar−805
Seleucid era974/975 AG
Thai solar calendar1205–1206
Tibetan calendar阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
789 or 408 or −364
     to 
阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
790 or 409 or −363
"Danfeng Gate" of the Daming Palace (China)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Emperor Constans II launches an assault against the Duchy of Benevento (Southern Italy). Taking advantage of the fact that Lombard king Grimoald I is engaged against Frankish forces from Neustria, Constans disembarks at Taranto, and besieges Lucera and Benevento.
  • Constans II visits Rome for 12 days (the only emperor to set foot in Rome for two centuries), and is received with great honor by Pope Vitalian. Constans gives the order to strip buildings, including the Pantheon, of their ornaments, which will be carried back to Constantinople.
  • Constans II moves the imperial court from Constantinople to Syracuse. He tries to stop the Arab conquest of Sicily, and restores Rome as seat of the Byzantine Empire. Constans strips sacred altar vessels from churches all over Rome.
  • May 8 Battle of Forino: The Byzantine army, led by Constans II, is defeated by the Lombards under Romuald I. He seizes Taranto and Brindisi, receiving military aid from the Bulgar Alcek horde, who are settled in the area of Ravenna.

Britain

Asia

  • June 5 In China, the Daming Palace becomes the government seat and royal residence of Emperor Gao Zong of the Tang Dynasty.
  • Battle of Baekgang: Korean Baekje forces and their Japanese allies are defeated in a naval battle, by a joint Silla–Tang coalition.
  • Mount Fuji is estimated to have been first climbed by a monk in this year.[1]

Religion

  • Wine, bishop of Winchester, moves the episcopal see north again to Dorchester.[2]

Births

  • Nasr ibn Sayyar, Arab general (d. 748)
  • Ōtsu, Japanese prince and poet (d. 686)
  • Song Jing, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 737)
  • Yamanobe, Japanese princess (approximate date)
  • Zhang Yue, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 730)

Deaths

  • Ago, duke of Friuli (approximate date)
  • Cunibert, bishop of Cologne (approximate date)
  • Gartnait IV, king of the Picts (approximate date)
  • Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin, king of Connacht (Ireland)
  • Gwisil Boksin, Korean general of Baekje (Korea)

References

  1. Cain, Fraser (June 2, 2009). "Mount Fuji". Universe Today. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
  2. Fryde et al. 1996, p. 223.

Sources

  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
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