656
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This article is about the year 656. For the number (and other uses), see 656 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 620s 630s 640s – 650s – 660s 670s 680s |
| Years: | 653 654 655 – 656 – 657 658 659 |
| 656 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 656 DCLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1409 |
| Armenian calendar | 105 ԹՎ ՃԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5406 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1188–-1187 |
| Bengali calendar | 63 |
| Berber calendar | 1606 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1200 |
| Burmese calendar | 18 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6164–6165 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙卯年十一月廿九日 (3292/3352-11-29) — to —
丙辰年十二月初十日(3293/3353-12-10) |
| Coptic calendar | 372–373 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 648–649 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4416–4417 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 712–713 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 578–579 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3757–3758 |
| Holocene calendar | 10656 |
| Iranian calendar | 34–35 |
| Islamic calendar | 35–36 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2989 |
| Minguo calendar | 1256 before ROC 民前1256年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1199 |
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Year 656 (DCLVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 656 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
- Oswiu of Northumbria annexes Mercia.
[edit] Asia
- The Battle of Bassorah (also known as Battle of the Camel) between Ali and Aisha, part of the first civil war in Islam, takes place in modern-day Basra, Iraq.
- Empress Saimei of Japan builds a new palace at Asuka, because her former residences took fire. This canal is called "the Mad Canal" by the people of that day, wasting the labor of tens of thousand workers and a large amount of money.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- Ali succeeds Uthman as Caliph.
- When a Chinese prince (later to be Emperor Zhongzong of Tang) is made crown prince, his lavish palatial mansion in Chang'an is converted into a Daoist abbey.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Uthman ibn Affan, Caliph (assassinated)
- Peada, king of Mercia (assassinated)
- Cui Dunli
- Li Daozong
