648

This article is about the year 648. For the number (and other uses), see 648 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	610s  620s  630s  – 640s –  650s  660s  670s
Years:	645 646 647 – 648 – 649 650 651

648 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

648 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	648 DCXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	1401
Armenian calendar	97 ԹՎ ՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	5398
Bahá'í calendar	-1196–-1195
Bengali calendar	55
Berber calendar	1598
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1192
Burmese calendar	10
Byzantine calendar	6156–6157
Chinese calendar	丁未年十二月初一日 (3284/3344-12-1) — to — 戊申年十二月十二日 (3285/3345-12-12)
Coptic calendar	364–365
Ethiopian calendar	640–641
Hebrew calendar	4408–4409
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	704–705
- Shaka Samvat	570–571
- Kali Yuga	3749–3750
Holocene calendar	10648
Iranian calendar	26–27
Islamic calendar	27–28
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2981
Minguo calendar	1264 before ROC 民前1264年
Thai solar calendar	1191

Year 648 (DCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 648 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.

Events

By topic

Religion

• Pope Theodore I excommunicates patriarch Paul II of Constantinople.

Literature

• The Book of Jin is compiled in China during the Tang Dynasty. Its chief editor is the Chancellor Fang Xuanling, who dies in this year as well.

Births

• Emperor Kōbun, emperor of Japan (d. 672)
• Prince Takechi of Japan (d. 696)
• Redbad, King of the Frisians, last (official) Ruler of Frisia (d. 719)

Deaths

• Fang Xuanling, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 579)
• Ma Zhou, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 601)
• Empress Xiao of China (b. c. 566)