666

This article is about the year 666. For the number, see 666 (number). For the Biblical meaning of the number, see Number of the Beast. For other uses, see 666 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	630s  640s  650s  – 660s –  670s  680s  690s
Years:	663 664 665 – 666 – 667 668 669

666 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

666 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	666 DCLXVI
Ab urbe condita	1419
Armenian calendar	115 ԹՎ ՃԺԵ
Assyrian calendar	5416
Bahá'í calendar	-1178–-1177
Bengali calendar	73
Berber calendar	1616
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1210
Burmese calendar	28
Byzantine calendar	6174–6175
Chinese calendar	乙丑年十一月二十日 (3302/3362-11-20) — to — 丙寅年十二月初一日 (3303/3363-12-1)
Coptic calendar	382–383
Ethiopian calendar	658–659
Hebrew calendar	4426–4427
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	722–723
- Shaka Samvat	588–589
- Kali Yuga	3767–3768
Holocene calendar	10666
Iranian calendar	44–45
Islamic calendar	45–46
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2999
Minguo calendar	1246 before ROC 民前1246年
Thai solar calendar	1209

Year 666 (DCLXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 666 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

• Chertsey Abbey is founded.
• Barking Abbey is founded.
• Wilfrid returns from France newly consecrated as Bishop of York.

China

• Chinese Buddhist monks Zhi Yu and Zhi You craft more South Pointing Chariot vehicles for Emperor Tenji of Japan, as recorded in the Nihon Shoki (the South Pointing Chariot is a non-magnetic, mechanical-driven directional-compass vehicle that incorporates the use of a differential gear).