640
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This article is about the year 640. For the number (and other uses), see 640 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 610s 620s 630s – 640s – 650s 660s 670s |
| Years: | 637 638 639 – 640 – 641 642 643 |
| 640 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
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| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 640 DCXL |
| Ab urbe condita | 1393 |
| Armenian calendar | 89 ԹՎ ՁԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5390 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1204–-1203 |
| Bengali calendar | 47 |
| Berber calendar | 1590 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1184 |
| Burmese calendar | 2 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6148–6149 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年十二月初三日 (3276/3336-12-3) — to —
庚子年十一月十三日(3277/3337-11-13) |
| Coptic calendar | 356–357 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 632–633 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4400–4401 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 696–697 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 562–563 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3741–3742 |
| Holocene calendar | 10640 |
| Iranian calendar | 18–19 |
| Islamic calendar | 19–20 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2973 |
| Minguo calendar | 1272 before ROC 民前1272年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1183 |
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Year 640 (DCXL) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 640 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.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- Tulga succeeds his father Suinthila as king of the Visigoths.
- The French city of Lille is founded by Lyderic.
- At request of Porga of Croatia, one of the first known princes (Croatian: knez) of Dalmatian Croatia to Emperor Heraclius for Christian teachers, Pope John IV (640–642) sent Christian teachers and missionaries to the Croatian Provinces.
[edit] Africa
- July – The Battle of Heliopolis is fought between Arab Muslim armies and the Byzantine Empire.
[edit] Asia
- Emperor Taizong's campaign against Xiyu states, or the Western Regions in the Tarim Basin, commences in this year, as the Tang Dynasty Chinese commander Hou Junji captures Gaochang to solidify Chinese rule in Central Asia.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- May 28 – Pope Severinus succeeds Pope Honorius I as the 71st pope.
- December 24 – Pope John IV succeeds Pope Severinus as the 72nd pope.
[edit] Births
- Al-Akhtal, Arab poet
- Aldhelm, Bible translator
- Dungarth, King of Dumnonia
- Musa bin Nusair, Umayyad general and governor
- Saint Lambert, bishop and Christian saint
- St. Kilian, Apostle of Franconia
- Saint Tysilio, bishop and Christian saint
- Luo Binwang
[edit] Deaths
- August 2 – Pope Severinus
- September 12 – Sak K'uk', Queen Mother of Palenque
- Pippin of Landen, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
- Eadbald, king of Kent
- Chintila, Visigothic King of Hispania
- Dushun
- Li Xiaogong
- Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan
