643
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This article is about the year 643. For the number (and other uses), see 643 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 610s 620s 630s – 640s – 650s 660s 670s |
| Years: | 640 641 642 – 643 – 644 645 646 |
| 643 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 643 DCXLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1396 |
| Armenian calendar | 92 ԹՎ ՂԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5393 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1201–-1200 |
| Bengali calendar | 50 |
| Berber calendar | 1593 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1187 |
| Burmese calendar | 5 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6151–6152 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬寅年十二月初六日 (3279/3339-12-6) — to —
癸卯年十一月十五日(3280/3340-11-15) |
| Coptic calendar | 359–360 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 635–636 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4403–4404 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 699–700 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 565–566 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3744–3745 |
| Holocene calendar | 10643 |
| Iranian calendar | 21–22 |
| Islamic calendar | 22–23 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2976 |
| Minguo calendar | 1269 before ROC 民前1269年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1186 |
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Year 643 (DCXLIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 643 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
- Rothari, King of the Lombards, issues the Lombard law code.
[edit] Africa
- Arab armies win their first North African victory in Tripoli.
[edit] Asia
- Pirooz, the son of the last Sassanid king of Persia, flees to Tang Dynasty China.
- A Chinese Tang ambassador is sent to the North Indian Empire.
- When the Chinese prefectural government officials travel to the Tang Dynasty's capital of Chang'an in this year to give the annual report of the affairs in their districts, Emperor Taizong of Tang discovers that many have no proper quarters to rest in, and are renting rooms with merchants. Therefore, Emperor Taizong orders the government agencies in charge of municipal construction to build every visiting official his own private mansion in the capital.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- April 26 – Saint Richarius, French evangelist
- April 29 – Hou Junji, Chinese general and Chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
- Wei Zheng, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 580)
