660
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This article is about the year. For a US area code, see Area code 660.
| Centuries: | 6th century · 7th century · 8th century |
| Decades: | 630s 640s 650s 660s 670s 680s 690s |
| Years: | 657 658 659 660 661 662 663 |
| 660 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 660 DCLX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1413 |
| Armenian calendar | 109 ԹՎ ՃԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1184 – -1183 |
| Berber calendar | 1610 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1204 |
| Burmese calendar | 22 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6168 – 6169 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年十一月十四日 (3296/3356-11-14) — to —
庚申年十一月廿四日(3297/3357-11-24) |
| Coptic calendar | 376 – 377 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 652 – 653 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4420 – 4421 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 715 – 716 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 582 – 583 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3761 – 3762 |
| Holocene calendar | 10660 |
| Iranian calendar | 38 – 39 |
| Islamic calendar | 39 – 40 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2993 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1203 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- Slavic principality of Carantania is first mentioned in historical sources.
- Childeric II is proclaimed king of Austrasia.
- Swithelm succeeds Sigeberht II as king of Essex.
- Felix assumes the titles of Duke of Vasconia and Aquitaine.
[edit] Asia
- Baekje in southwestern Korea is overthrown by the alliance of the Tang and Silla, led by General Su Dingfang, General Kim Yu-shin and Kim Beopmin. The Japanese envoys detained in Tang are paroled.
- Empress Saimei of Japan makes an order to dispatch a force to the Korean Peninsula to save Baekje.
- Emperor Gaozong of Tang suffers a stroke; his wife Wu starts to rule.
- Naka no Ōe no Ōji of Japan for the first time makes a clepsydra at Asuka, by which he causes the people to know the hours.
[edit] Births
- Yamanoue no Okura, Japanese poet (d. 733)
[edit] Deaths
- General Ge-Baek of Baekje
- Xin Maojiang
