665

This article is about the year 665. For the number (and other uses), see 665 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	630s  640s  650s  – 660s –  670s  680s  690s
Years:	662 663 664 – 665 – 666 667 668

665 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

665 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	665 DCLXV
Ab urbe condita	1418
Armenian calendar	114 ԹՎ ՃԺԴ
Assyrian calendar	5415
Bahá'í calendar	-1179–-1178
Bengali calendar	72
Berber calendar	1615
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1209
Burmese calendar	27
Byzantine calendar	6173–6174
Chinese calendar	甲子年十二月初十日 (3301/3361-12-10) — to — 乙丑年十一月十九日 (3302/3362-11-19)
Coptic calendar	381–382
Ethiopian calendar	657–658
Hebrew calendar	4425–4426
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	721–722
- Shaka Samvat	587–588
- Kali Yuga	3766–3767
Holocene calendar	10665
Iranian calendar	43–44
Islamic calendar	44–45
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2998
Minguo calendar	1247 before ROC 民前1247年
Thai solar calendar	1208

Year 665 (DCLXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 665 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

• Swithelm is succeeded by Sighere and Sebbi as kings of Essex.
• Batbayan succeeds Kubrat in Onoguria.

Asia

• The city of Seongnam is renamed Hansanju.

By topic

Religion

• According to the Annales Cambriae, the Anglo-Saxons convert to Christianity after the Second Battle of Badon.
• Sighere of Essex encourages his subjects to reject Christianity and return to their indigenous religion.

Deaths

• April 16 – Fructuosus of Braga
• Brahmagupta, Indian mathematician and astronomer (born 598)
• Li Zhong
• Yu Zhining
• Kubrat