647
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This article is about the year 647. For the number (and other uses), see 647 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 610s 620s 630s – 640s – 650s 660s 670s |
| Years: | 644 645 646 – 647 – 648 649 650 |
| 647 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 647 DCXLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1400 |
| Armenian calendar | 96 ԹՎ ՂԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5397 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1197–-1196 |
| Bengali calendar | 54 |
| Berber calendar | 1597 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1191 |
| Burmese calendar | 9 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6155–6156 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙午年十一月二十日 (3283/3343-11-20) — to —
丁未年十一月三十日(3284/3344-11-30) |
| Coptic calendar | 363–364 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 639–640 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4407–4408 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 703–704 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 569–570 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3748–3749 |
| Holocene calendar | 10647 |
| Iranian calendar | 25–26 |
| Islamic calendar | 26–27 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2980 |
| Minguo calendar | 1265 before ROC 民前1265年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1190 |
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Year 647 (DCXLVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 647 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] Asia
- A stone tower astronomical observatory named Cheomseongdae is constructed in Silla (southern Korea) around this time.
[edit] North Africa
- The first Muslim invasion of North Africa led by Uthman ibn Affan of the Rashidun Caliphate. Muslims take control of North Africa
[edit] Births
- Itzamnaaj B'alam II, king of Yaxchilan
[edit] Deaths
- February 14 – Gao Shilian, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (born 576)
- Xiao Yu, Chinese prince of the Liang Dynasty, later an official serving the Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty (born 574)
- Yang Shidao, Chinese statesman
- Li Baiyao, Chinese government official and historian who completed editing the Book of Northern Qi, which his father had started (born 564)
- Queen Seondeok, ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla
