662

This article is about the year 662. For the number (and other uses), see 662 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	630s  640s  650s  – 660s –  670s  680s  690s
Years:	659 660 661 – 662 – 663 664 665

662 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

662 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	662 DCLXII
Ab urbe condita	1415
Armenian calendar	111 ԹՎ ՃԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	5412
Bahá'í calendar	-1182–-1181
Bengali calendar	69
Berber calendar	1612
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1206
Burmese calendar	24
Byzantine calendar	6170–6171
Chinese calendar	辛酉年十二月初六日 (3298/3358-12-6) — to — 壬戌年十一月十六日 (3299/3359-11-16)
Coptic calendar	378–379
Ethiopian calendar	654–655
Hebrew calendar	4422–4423
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	718–719
- Shaka Samvat	584–585
- Kali Yuga	3763–3764
Holocene calendar	10662
Iranian calendar	40–41
Islamic calendar	41–42
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2995
Minguo calendar	1250 before ROC 民前1250年
Thai solar calendar	1205

Year 662 (DCLXII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 662 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 place

Europe

• The regent Grimuald usurps the kingship of the Lombards, driving Perctarit into exile and killing Godepert.

Asia

• The Emperor of Japan orders Abe no Hirafu to escort Buyeo Pung to Baekje, where he is made to take up the succession to the dignity.

Births

• Prince Kusakabe of Japan (d. 689)
• Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Japanese poet (approximate date)
• Emperor Ruizong of Tang
• Rumwold of Buckingham, infant saint

Deaths

• Lai Ji
• Maximus the Confessor, Byzantine theologian
• Godepert, king of the Lombards
• Rumwold, infant saint